[Cover docket: Lieut. Jn°. Pough / in / Feb^y 15. 1784 / Copied] West Point Feb^y 15. 1784 Sir I this day received your letter & the [undecipherable] Inclosed. I trust M^r [undecipherable] On your obtaining a certificate from some con- venient [undecipherable] that it was impossible for you to remove to this Post [strikethrough: undecipherable], with the other Officers I [undecipherable] that you receive for the last and this months only, your subsistence at my office in Philadelphia, after which it will be necessary that you [undecipherable], if you appear to receive any thing, it being my orders to pay to those only who are here. I am Sir your Obedient Servant [Lieut [undecipherable] Jn° Pugh]