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Lettei's of Dr. TJiojuas Cooper, 182^-18 j;2 733 VIII. Columbia March 13 1830 Deal- Sir Gen. Hayne wrote to me that he had presented the Report of the Senate in my favour. I did not take a rec! from Hall the Marshall. I took for granted that tny discharge from his custody was a receipt in full ; for my sentence of course was, to be committed till the fine was paid. It happened in this way. Hall called on me in the morning and told me that my term of confinement was ended, and I was free to leave the prison. I answered that I had not yet paid my fine, but expected to pay it that day. He said it was no matter, I might pay it when con- venient. We went out together and met Israel Israel. In the street, a few minutes after, the Postman delivered me a letter containing a draught for 400 Dls drawn on Abel Humphrys of South Second Street Phila" at 2 months. Israel Israel went to him to get him to discount the draught, which being a bitter english federalist he positively refused. I. Israel then went to St. Girard, [who] gave him the money for it without charging discount and I gave [it] to Hall. Probably J. E. Hall of the Portfolio ' recollects Jllegible~ . But suppose a man on Ca Sa at liberty with consent of the sheriff is not that a [satisfaction of?] the debt? C! you not draw up the clause so as to get rid of this objection, if in- deed it be one ? Buchanan's support will give me a very good opinion of the man, considering my obnoxious character to the Federalists. Could you write a note to S. Girard to look in Ap. 1800 for a bill on Abel Humphreys in favour of Th. Cooper for 400 $ discounted by him ? He wl probably take trouble for you as a Senator that he w'! not for me.^ I feel for y! loss in that fine woman your niece. But so things are. I am with many thanks Yr friend Thomas Cooper. IX. 29 March 1830 Columbia. Dear Sir I thank you for the bill in my favour. I shall avoid [i/iegifi/e'] worms, though I have the bill. [I] forget the day when I left prison. I have no memorandum about it. [Will] you write forme to St. Girard, and verify his discount- ing a bill for 400$ drawn on Abel Humphreys of Philadelphia. I will write to Thof Sergeant and get him to go to old Mrs. Hall.' If my 1 John E. Hall edited the PortfoHo from 1S17 to 1S27. He was the son of John Hall, U. S. marshal for the district of Pennsylvania. 2 At the end of House Report No. 244, Twenty-second Congress, first session, Dr. Cooper, in an affidavit dated February 4, 1831, says that he has written to Philadelphia, but can trace no entry of the transaction in the books of Stephen Girard, which, he understands, do not go so far back in his banking transactions. 'Mrs. Sarah Hall, the marshal's widow, a literary lady, died April 8, 1S30.