[to Hen^y M^cMullan 23 July 89] Sir I received your favor of yesterday by the honorable and unfortunate Cap^t Hall — [strikethrough: I] [strikethrough: for this] It would [strikethrough: wish to have] afforded me [strikethrough: much] pleasure [strikethrough: satisfactions] [strikethrough: agreeable] to provide for [strikethrough: me] in [strikethrough: a splender] manner [strikethrough: but what] you were [strikethrough: pleased to propose] able — That the clerks in the office are [strikethrough: to] [strikethrough: the many] [strikethrough: as] [strikethrough: the full amount of the] [strikethrough: number] [strikethrough: these men he required,] [strikethrough: before] [strikethrough: when] and the [strikethrough: claimants] are [strikethrough: numerous] — I have been examining whether [strikethrough: the] [strikethrough: were vacancies in] any [strikethrough: this] office [strikethrough: but] I cannot [strikethrough: find] any — indeed all the [strikethrough: offices] [strikethrough: upon] [strikethrough: when] not only [strikethrough: be the full] [strikethrough: of] clerks