[Page 1 of this file is a repository placeholder reading: "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically."] [Address leaf:] [FREE.] N-York June 1 John [Pierce?] Esq^re [Comp?] to Gen[eral?] [undecipherable] --- [undecipherable] [undecipherable] New York [undecipherable] June 1[undecipherable] Dear [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I feel have a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] given founded [undecipherable] and has been ordered — If [your?] the manufacturing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mind to know that any thing [undecipherable] has been done & prevented, — at last a thing [undecipherable] it is a well enough for me to reason in this way — I write you mind to a [line?] at [undecipherable] on me with the [undecipherable] that I may be decided [upon?] all its effects — Hope of [undecipherable] be confined to extend to a [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] evidence charged for the [undecipherable] — if so, it is [undecipherable] much the same as an [allowance?] — [undecipherable] sufficient to pay for any [undecipherable] [undecipherable] one [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] there will be one [final?] adjustment [undecipherable] appear as soon for my [attempt?] — I am anxious to [?] through the [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [agree?] to what I think I deserve — God knows my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from my [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] life has given me the [usual?] [undecipherable] of affliction — But I [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Most Sincerely yours [undecipherable: probable reading G. W. Moore or similar] [verso contains additional text, wholly undecipherable due to document degradation]