16 June 1789 — [5466 ?] [To Colonel [undecipherable] C[undecipherable]] Your favors of 4th and the 20th of May are both before me — I did not answer the first because I expected the pleasure of soon seeing you here, and I deferred answering the 2d until some arrangement of the Government being completed, [undecipherable: so that] [undecipherable] might be [undecipherable] be written. [strikethrough: [undecipherable] that you [undecipherable]] [strikethrough: It] I learn that you have not un[undecipherable] to the President — This would be [undecipherable] and needs [undecipherable] You may do it confidently, with proper delicacy as I am persuaded he advances [undecipherable] as confidential [undecipherable] That are made to him — In your Letter [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] make [undecipherable] as may be the [undecipherable: General?] [undecipherable] as what you [undecipherable] like [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — There [undecipherable] times [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] before he [undecipherable] and I am persuaded you [undecipherable: stand?] in his mind as you could wish — but he makes neither promises or implications of promises — His great object is to find [undecipherable] of character in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: places?] [undecipherable: have been?] filled [undecipherable] and conformably [undecipherable] [undecipherable] character — [Signature: undecipherable] When any [undecipherable: thing?] further decision takes place I shall write you further — I believe on the whole you have conducted wisely in not coming up — the number of gentlemen who have been here soliciting places, would have injured any of your [undecipherable]