[Draft to Colonel Carring[ton] of Bowden near Richmond in Virginia 27 Sep^t 1789] New York 27 September 1789 My dear Sir I received your favor of the beginning of this month. The characters [who] have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [ar]t who have been attached to the office of Marshall have been truly respectable, and the office is considered as highly honorable. [undecipherable] professions he and his opinions of one are [undecipherable] agreeably to your own [undecipherable]. As your appointment to the office of Marshall was [undecipherable: also?] completed yesterday your commission will now be transmitted to you — I congratulate you on [the] [undecipherable] and sincerely hope you will find it in all respects agreeable to your [undecipherable] — [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Our friend M[r]s C[o]lder [is gone] [in] [perfect] health — [she] will probably not [meet] before the 1^st of No[vember] [undecipherable] by the newspapers the in France — + The shock M[rs] Knox received [some] month[s] [ago] by the loss of her child has greatly impaired her health & spirits — but some [undecipherable] principle [of] human affections is beginning to [show] its [force] — The public papers are [replete] with considerable information, on the effects, the commotions and [undecipherable] revolutions in France — I am my dear Sir Your sincerely affectionate friend Knox Colonel Carrington —