[Address:] John Pierce Esquire paymaster General Annapolis [Docketing, lower right:] from [undecipherable] [Date notation, lower center:] [undecipherable] 22 [undecipherable] --- New Haven 15 Oct. 1784 Dear Sir, I [undecipherable] the 8^th of Sept. that I was favor'd with yours of 28 August last. I was [undecipherable] that it came so late. [undecipherable] as you might charge me with an unjust [undecipherable] [undecipherable] all patience without [undecipherable] before the receipt of any answer [undecipherable] from your [undecipherable] going to [undecipherable] Philadelphia in three weeks from the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] little [undecipherable] from that you would receive my letter, there [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] had had the pleasure [undecipherable] you before you had so [undecipherable] to the [Southward?] — I however [undecipherable] you immediately by [undecipherable] to know if you were [undecipherable] at Philadelphia [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] they till the end of the month, as one that [undecipherable] I should [undecipherable] you with all haste as I [undecipherable] also [undecipherable] concluded you were [undecipherable] going [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] for my arrival — [undecipherable] this evening for Mr. De Mill who told me he left [undecipherable] in Philadelphia — a few days ago [undecipherable] there he [undecipherable] you had not received my letter — This gives me much concern for nothing [undecipherable] make me more [undecipherable] than that any thing on my part should [undecipherable] to discover in me a backwardness to what you [undecipherable] desire to be done, or indifferent to the Commands with which you [undecipherable] at any time be pleased to honor me — And I embrace this earliest opportunity to inform you that it was my wish to see you at Philadelphia. If that I did not must be attributed to the failure of the Post — I have reason to suppose you are at this time on your advance to the Southward; I can therefore only [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] for your [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] with all cordial regards my very Dear Sir, Yours ever [undecipherable: probable reading Jez. W. Monroe]