Your note of yesterday is received— In the difficulty between us, of which you speak, you say you think I was the aggressor— I do not think I was— You say my "words imported insult"— I meant them as a fair set-off to your own statements, and not otherwise; and in that light alone I now wish you to understand them— You ask for my "present" feelings on the subject—" I entertain no unkind feeling to you, and none of any sort upon the subject, except a sincere regret that I permitted myself to get into such an altercation—2