Autograph letter signed with initials : Crawford's [Washington, D.C.?], to his son Frederic, 1817 Mar. 2.

Commenting on the health of his wife (Frederic's mother, Mary Alsop King); noting that his health has been good this winter; expressing his anxiousness to be home and his concern about the "very deep roads" he will encounter on the journey; discussing possible routes home; mentioning the President's inauguration [James Monroe]; advising Pete to remove snow from the fir trees so "the limbs will not be broken"; reporting that he is trying to obtain crackers for his wife.