[Copy] New York April 24^th [undecipherable] Dear Sir Inclosed are copies of my letter to you of the [undecipherable] of Ultimo of my letter of the same date to [Van?]Pendergast and of [the same?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: one or more lines obscured by damage] Pendergast will not acknowledge the receipt of the five [strikethrough: hundred] four hundred Dollars, for which you have not yet procured his receipt. — You will see by my letter to him that I did, ^now then, intimate, when the mention [undecipherable], and therefore as his accounts agree with his receipts to you, I am of opinion that you will find on examination that he ought not to be charged with the same. [undecipherable] Esquire.