Signature has been clipped-off but postscripts remain. Mention's powers of Congress, seat of government (Philadelphia, Annapolis), need for a Constitution, crops in Virginia, EP's suggestions regarding the District of Columbia. Added in ink beneath EP's postscript: Between the first two stars [was] cut out on the 2d Dec. 30. for Mr. I[srael].K[eech]. Tefft. S[avanna]h.Ga. as an Autograph. 'We have at length had very fine rains, but according to the state of all sublunary things, are now under great anxiety, lest our Crops should be nip'd by a Frost, the wind blowing very bleak from the North, however we must be satisfied with whatever happens. I am very truly || Dr Sir yr affe friend. Edmd Pendleton [|| in original as two upright slashes]. Tefft appears in PJM 17: 505 n.3 from JM's correspondence of 1830 Dec. 3.].