[BOSTON postal mark, circled 26] General Henry Knox Secretary at War frot New York [docket notation, lower right, inverted: Jany 26, 1789 / answerd / [undecipherable] / 26 July 1789 / [undecipherable]] my dear Harry Boston July [date obscured] [(270)] I was most disappointed on Thursday Even, and more [so] last night in not receiving a line from you by either of the posts — I hope & pray your dear little [Henry?] is not Ill again [so] as to prevent your writing me, and until I hear from you [I] shall be very uneasy on his account —— By the last New York pa[pers] I observe that the Revenue System is nearly completed & ready, for the Nominations & Appointments — I really extremely anxious in this [li]ne, and if I am disappointed it will [be] very feveerly felt by me, more [so] than any circumstance [of] my life —— I am pleased that M^r [King?] is chosen a Senator by the [State of] New York, this must be very fla[ttering] to him — many here will be more [so] as it will place him far beyond [what] they wish him to be — [Envy?] has [got] [power?] on the mind —— M^r William M[c][undecipherable] is up from the eastward a few days [since] — he informs me [that Thomas?] is doing very well, and [if] it was not for a few restless [rascals?] every thing would go on right on the [Patent?] — [Major?] [Ulmer?] has [sold?] his interest at [Ducktrap?] and is moving off to [join] the [River?] so that I am afraid you will lose [to] the benefit of his friendship and influence — [young] [Isaac] [Little?] is going [out] in two or three weeks, but I [should] doubt his resolution to put it in execution —— Your friends are all well — my love to [your] family — your affectionate H Jackson [H. [Allmon?] ——]