Washington Dec 3d 1821 Dear Samuel, I have at length arrived at Washington, and in good  health: I wrote to you from Albany, giving an account of my  progress, so far; I will now give you an account of the re- mainder of my journey. The steam boat which I expected to find at Albany on wednesday morning, by an alteration in the times of departure, did not go to New York until Thursday morning, by  which arrangement, a day is lost; but fortunately I found a [ ]  steam boat going to N. York on Wednesday evening - in which we  took our passage and arrived at N York on Thursday evening. Friday night we tarried at Trenton in New Jersey, 70 miles from N.  York- Saturday morning we took the line of steam boats on the  Delaware and Chesapeake Bay and arrived at Baltimore at 4 o'clock, on Sunday morning, being a distance of 156 miles in  22 hours. From Baltimore to Washington is only 40 miles, which  we travelled on Sunday. Congress met this day and have spent it in [ ] Speaker [ ]  [ ] stands at the [ ] the candidate  and it is thought the he will finally be elected. I have not yet taken lodging, but remain at a tavern. I have been looking  round, and expect that Mr Palmer, Gen Mattocks, Col Rich and  myself have agreed to take lodging together - and I expect we shall  take our lodgings tomorrow. There is no snow at Washington - but  I found it all the way until I reached Baltimore- I have no con- venience for writing - at present - but will write to your Mama &  Mary next week. Give them my best love S C Crafts