S.C. Crafts Nov. 12, 1820 Washington November 12 1820 My dearest Friend, This is the first opportunity I have had to write you since I left Albany, at which place I wrote to you. We took our departure from Albany on tuesday morning and unfortunately the steamboat got a ground soon after we set out and we remained in sight of Albany until sundown, at which time the tide rose sufficiently high to float us off- by this delay we arrived the next day too late to get a passage to Philadelphia, and were under the necessity of [ ] there over night- From New York by travelling night and day I have arrived here without any further accident and in good health.  From Albany to New York I was in Company of Romes Wardsworth- he has resided in N York since he remov- ed from Montreal- he has married again and informs me that he is not at present engaged in any business- but I was in- formed that he made a very handsome property at Montreal during the late war, which he has transferred to N.Y. but had   not vested it as yet in any [  ] of business- Wardsworth in- formed me that he has been at Farmington & Hartford during the past summer, was at Doct Todds- and says he was inform- ed that the Doct was gaining practice very fast, having nearly  or quite as much as he could attend to- I also met Mr Reefs in New York just as I was coming away, he told me that the Doctors family were all in good health two days before