Letter from Aaron Burr to Peter Van Gaasbeek

              Philad'a 21 June 1795
My dear Sir					
   I believe I have acknowledged the					
Receipt of your lettr of the 8th - if not I have at					
least thought of you so often that it seems to me					
as if I had either written or talked with you -					
   I have no news yet of the effect of the blank,					
there certainly was not as late as Sunday last any					
arrival at N York in Consequence of it.					
   I regret very much that I did not see you 					
before I left home - I wished to talk over your af					
fairs & to explain to you mine - Some thing might per					
haps be [loss] to fulfill in part your wishes - I am					
still however equally distressed as when I last wrote you					
in my finances - The pressure for Cash has been so great					
in our large Towns, that all the usual means of raising
are ineffectual - add to this the Disappointment flowing
from such a State of things, which forbid you to rely
on the best founded expectations - I have experien-
ced these disappointments to a very distressing degree
and it will be six months before I shall be relieved
unless some unknown good fortune intervenes - It
will however give you Pleasure to learn (& therefore only
I mention it) that if I weather the storm of which there can be do doubt I shall
be as rich as a reasonable man need wish - I 
mention my distresses by way of apology for myself in not
having answered your letters in a more effectual and satis
factory way - and I mention my prospects to console you 
for the disappointment & to keep up your hopes & Spirits.
   You must attend particularly to the enclosed 
Letter - you doubtly know the Young Man who is the subject
of it - you will manage the matter with all becoming deli-
cacy & secrecy - Let me know your opinion of his character.
   I have directed him to draw on J.B. Prevost, because
I may not be in N York - He (VDLyne) is to live in the
the house with Stewart - I have settled all necessary
arrangements - He had better come on without Loss of
time.
   We still hold ourselves under obligations of
Secrecy with regard to the Treaty - Real difficulties
occur - we expect to surmount them and adjourn in
the course of this week, after which I hope to be at
liberty to communicate with you more freely on
this head - 

                    very aff'y your friend
                         & svt
                             Aaron Burr (signed)

PVG