[Endorsement, upper right:] Elbridge Gerry Esq^r / Sept. 6. [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] proceedings / [undecipherable] [Address:] No. 110 / Mess Pickering & Hodgdon / Marblehead / Philadelphia Mess^rs Pickering & Hodgdon Marblehead 6^th Sep^r 1784 Gentlemen Since my last of the 25^th of August, wherein I desired you to purchase the final Settlements at 2/9 if they could not be procured under, I am favoured with yours of the 23^d of August, wherein you say "Securities remain as when I wrote you last [undecipherable] 3/5 in the pound" & seeing no prospect of a purchase I have this Day drawn Bills on you in favour of Thomas Muspelher payable at five Days Sight for six hundred Dollars & shall draw for one thousand Dollars more by the earliest Opportunity — if you should have inverted my Balance previous to the receipt of this, draw on me to discharge my bills, or if you cannot sell Drafts, obtain the money at the Bank until I can remit it — I remain m[undecipherable] Heart[undecipherable] Gent[lemen] your friend & [undecipherable] Elb Gerry