[The first image is an archival 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."] [The second image is largely illegible due to severe damage; visible administrative markings only: "9 1784" and "29051"] Richmond December 9^th 1784 Dear Sir This moment received your letter of the 29^th ulto and am much chagrined and disappointed in not receiving [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] and that my expectations of [undecipherable: finding] your [undecipherable] is for[undecipherable]ing it has [undecipherable: prevented] my taking any [undecipherable] measures [undecipherable] decided mean[s] of [undecipherable: doing] it on [undecipherable] — I want to have left this place this [undecipherable] instant and do not know now what to do — if I stay the roads will become impassable — if I go M^r Dunscomb will be left without any [undecipherable: certificates] to [undecipherable] and I shall have [undecipherable] with M^r Jackson — I pray you to take the most vigorous and decided means to have the Paper forwarded to me, and if you cannot find any person going or [undecipherable] will go one with the [undecipherable] of money to [undecipherable: take] it — I must go to [undecipherable] and M^r Lewis will it [undecipherable: immediately] — who will not find any [undecipherable] careful before [undecipherable] — M^r James Gibson is coming — you will find others coming every day if you require it — M^r Swearingen, Clement B[undecipherable] or any merchant [undecipherable] here — I do not wish to incur any [undecipherable: expense] and therefore hope you may [undecipherable] without sending especially — I have [undecipherable: ordered] you an order on his Books for one hundred Dollars for fear of accident in this [undecipherable: business] — I [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] the Carolinas without [undecipherable] but of this I am uncertain I [undecipherable: desire] you to [undecipherable: take] M^r M[undecipherable: cMilligan]'s [undecipherable: opinion] [undecipherable] of Hagan's Regiment, and that [undecipherable] inform me that [undecipherable: he] can [undecipherable: satisfy] the [undecipherable: Gentleman] respecting this [undecipherable] dispute — it will be [undecipherable: necessary] for [undecipherable] to be called on to [undecipherable: swear] to [undecipherable: their] charges, and [undecipherable] the parties ought to be heard together [undecipherable] the parties to [undecipherable: swear] — I wish your [undecipherable: promise] to take M^r Milligan's opinion, and [undecipherable] yourself as you may think to be [undecipherable: grounded] and [undecipherable: just] [undecipherable] settled with the interest [undecipherable] At the end of this year or of this service I should not suppose the Interest of these M^r men ought to commence, [undecipherable: different] principles from that of the rest of the [undecipherable: Army] [undecipherable] [29051] I wrote to Major [undecipherable] on his [undecipherable: brother's] [undecipherable] and will [undecipherable: go to send] a [undecipherable: duplicate] of that [undecipherable] after his answer you will be able to [undecipherable: close] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] for any offense and [undecipherable] before my [undecipherable] — You need not send on to M^r Dunscomb the [undecipherable: Resolve] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable: wish] you to [undecipherable: tell] M^r [undecipherable: Bittle] he can find the [undecipherable] where the charges [undecipherable] account his [undecipherable] rendered by the [undecipherable: States], and that it will be sent to M^r Dunscomb — when any applications are made to you for that [undecipherable: Corps], I wish you to [undecipherable: receive] the account and look into the charges, [undecipherable: Deposits] and transmit it to M^r Dunscomb who will [undecipherable: attend] it — and [undecipherable: agree] on it — If M^r Lewis comes on you had better give him [undecipherable: sufficient] money to carry him to N[orth] Carolina H [undecipherable: Howell]