[Philip Audebert Esq^r] New York May 20. 1785 Dear Sir Yours of the 17. Instant is arrived, I shall be much obliged to you to forward me the ballance in your hands by first safe Conveyance; together with what Cap.^t Really must have Paid you as I am in much want of [undecipherable] my Furniture is only arrived this day, so that I am very busy & cannot enlarge at present, however you may be assured you or the Office must come to [undecipherable] as fast as you can & M.^r Grood has desired me to write to you on the subject, &c: a letter from M. Pierce dated the 1.^st Instant. & I suppose we shall see him in a pew days. Philip Audebert