Having Advice from London that Your Excellency wod. set out for your Government of South Carolina last December, I hope you are by this time safely arriv'd and therefore altho' it may be premature beg Leave to felicitate you upon your Arrival, and all the Gentlemen of the province of having got a Gent. of your Character who will promote their happiness & prosperity; and I think myself particularly happy in having got a Neighbour to cooperate with me in every thing that will promote his Majesties Interest, the Happiness and Improvement of Great Britain and the American Colonies and promote a Union amongst them so necessary for our safety and Welfare to prevent all foreign Incroachments and in getting rid of such cruel base & designing Neighbours as the French are where ever they settle, by the principle of their Religion and Arbitrary power. 

You may be assured Sir, I shall heartily concur every thing that will promote so salutary an End; & particularly what shall relate to these 2 Colonies, which his Majesty has entrusted to our Care to promote the mutual Advantage of both. 

I am extremely glad to hear from London that the Instructions formerly given about the Boundary Line have been withdrawn in your Province, as they were here upon my Appointment, and that the Lords Commissioners of Trade have instructed you to advise with your Council what they Think will be a proper or equitable Line betwixt the 2 provinces, as I have already done and have laid before their Lordships, and whenever I know certainly of your Landing, I shall send you a Copy of what I sent over to the Board of Trade as the Thoughts and Desires of this province upon it, that you may be inform'd of it, and if you find reason to object to any part of it, you may, upon laying the Sentiments of your province before his Majesty, that he may determine it without Delay as the Broils and Tumults betwixt the Inhabitants of both Provinces has grown to such a height by the narrow and selfish Views of Mr. Glenn to get a few paltry fees from the deluded planters, as to give Warrants and patents in No. Carolina, and to grant Commissions of the Peace to People in this Province, who live upon Lands where patents have been granted from this province these 10 years, and who have peaceably paid their Taxes to this province these 8 years since their first Settlements upon the Lands to the Northward of 35° which was the Latitude agreed upon to be the Boundary between the two provinces, until his Majesty shod. determine it, and now Mr. Glenn has taken these Planters by the hand, and directed them not to pay taxes to this Governmt. altho' so much wanted at present for the Defense of the Colonies, when he expects no Benefit to your province, as the don't propose paying any to him, this he has done only out of Spite to me, as I have had patents these 10 years for part of those Lands, because I did not approve of his refusing the Money Bill, and preventing the Cherokees from assisting and joining our Virginia Troops. But I shall trouble you no more upon this Subject, as I am sure it is now over. I am with great Regard

Sir

Your most obedient &

most hble Servt.

Arthur Dobbs