[Endorsement: R² Feb 28] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Docket notation: [undecipherable] C. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Feb [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] Dear [undecipherable] War Office February 13. 1[undecipherable] I never thought it clever to blend matters of Business with tales of Pleasure, but as I have not time to write you two Letters, I must communicate all I have to say in one — I have [undecipherable] been to [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] I have been with my friends [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who have given me both Money and Favors nothing more my good fellow could be [undecipherable] unless [undecipherable] nothing but what was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] nothing but what was [undecipherable] — they are [undecipherable] the best Men in [undecipherable] I am always [undecipherable] to please you [undecipherable] I see no way of doing it [undecipherable] I know how — in your [undecipherable] Letter you say, that you want a [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the Foreign Officers now in [undecipherable] who are [undecipherable] not for [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] prove to be — [undecipherable] questions [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] numerous, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who have Served in our Army from one Month or [undecipherable] years during the commencement of the [undecipherable] and the last of the year [undecipherable] or — [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] to have their accounts settled, not [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] as in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as well as more — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who have Served in America — After I had ac= complished my Business at Annapolis — I made my friends a visit on Potowmac, which was not attended with any remarkable circumstances — a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] great Beauty and considerable [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to indulge a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] prudent youth I discouraged it as much as [undecipherable] through the efforts [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Enclosure — list of names with annotations:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] No [undecipherable] — out of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] La [undecipherable] Bellambre [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] De [undecipherable] Jassang [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Beatim In [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Paschin [undecipherable] Marcellin Le Roi [undecipherable] Kosciuszko [undecipherable] In America [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] add [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] March 1782 — of [undecipherable] as the [undecipherable] and your continue to [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]