Your letter of the 30^th ult– was received last night–2 I very cheerfully comply with your request, so far as I am able–

As I remember, the House ordered the raising of two Committees, one, of Arrangements, number indefinite, the other, thirty in number, to attend the remains of M^r Adams to Massachusetts– By some mistake, as I understood, a committee of thirty was appointed by the Speaker, as a committee of Arrangements, of which I was a member–3 At our first meeting, the mistake was discovered; and the committee being much too numerous for convenence, we delegated our authority to a sub-committee, of a smaller number of our own body, of which sub-committee, I was not a member– Whatever was done in the matter about which you enquire, I presume was done by this sub-committee; at all events I have no knowledge of it whatever. M^r Hudson was Chairman of both the general, and the sub-committee, and who were the other members, of the latter I do not certainly recollect–

To your first special interrogatory, towit "Were you consulted in regard to my exclusion, from the ser-

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vices?" I answer I was not—perhaps because of the arrangement I have stated, excluded me from consultation on all points–

To the second towit "Was objection made to me—and if so, on what ground was it placed?" I answer I know nothing whatever on the point– To the third, towit "Did my exclusion meet with your consent or approval?" I answer, I knew nothing of the matter, and, of course, did not consent to, or approve of it; and I may add, that I knew nothing which should ^have^ justified me in any attempt to put a mark of disapprobation upon [...?] you–

So entrely ignorant was I, in relation to your having been excluded from the funeral services of M^r Adams, that, until I received your letter, I should have given it as my recollection, that you did actually participate in those services–4