Philadelphia August 3^d 1784. D^r Sir, I do not now expect to commence my journey until the first of October, when I hope you will be ready for my presence — I shall have three Horses with me, which as well as myself I wish to be as little expensive as possible — for this reason I wish you to engage me some decent place to lodge, and a stable for my Horses — Mould it not be well for you to lay in Hay sufficient to last a month, it would be less [undecipherable] and therefore I conceive it well to [undecipherable] I am, very much your feiend Jos: Plows [W. White Esq^r]