Something material turns up which will make my [undecipherable] necessary sooner — I have written to Edes Blee and informed him that I cannot be answerable for any of his engagements. I wish M^r Hover would be so kind as to await my orders and inform them that they can send me letters thro' the office enclosed in yours — yours adieu! [undecipherable: probable reading McAroute] [signature] D Sir Philadelphia December 11 1785. I have presented the enclosed certificate to M^r Stair and he tells me it is one of those he cannot attest; Indeed on consideration, I think it more regular that I should pass thro' your office; you will oblige me by changing it, for one of your certificates of a like purse— the bearer M^r Hough will Sign a receipt in my name, which I hope will answer the same purpose as if I attended to it in person — give me leave to call to your remembrance my pay as Colonel of the 1^st Regiment of Foot for the months of January February and March 1777, you may recollect that when I last saw you here — Colonel Chambers informed me that he had not paid me that money, but had accounted with the Auditor of the army for it, possibly I may never have an opportunity of again addressing you on the Subject — let me therefore request that you may now give me a Certificate for it, for which M^r Hough's receipt I trust is a sufficient acknowledgement [undecipherable: bottom of page, text partially cut off]