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Sable Island July 28th 1811
Sir
I recieved yours by Capt Darby and markd the contents = we have been at work every day that the wheather would permit = ever since the schooner [Norinles?] has left this Island = excepting one day that we went to the east end to catch the mare = as she ran a way as as soon was landed = and we caught her and brought her up to the west end = and she is a fine creature to work as ever I see = but Capt Darby did not arrive here so soon as he expected = for we had nothing but southerly winds and thick whether for twenty days = and when he arrived we had got eighty bails of cotton on shore and about 25 or thirty tons of logwood = and according to my rough calculation I shall save about eighty bails of cotton for you and about 25 or 30 tons of logwood, and the two anchors the windlass the winch the cabboose and the chain plates = and as for the deck nails that you expect one copper, and nothing but composition for we have tryd several of them and we find nothing else = you mentiond about keeping a true account of the number of days that the men are working for you - which I shall be very correct about, I dont wish you to send any vessel till the middle of September, as I cannot attend to loading of it