[4 k 3 Rob-ith— v. 9 Nov 1789 22 XXV-39 72?] [9 hiv] [strikethrough: By an agreement—] By agreement with Doctor Ramsay I [strikethrough: was to have] transmitted you a List of the General and field Officers of the late Army of the United States in order to be published a [undecipherable] of his history— I have had a person to work on this fatigue upwards of two months & he has finally prepared it but on minute examination I find it too erroneous for publication & besides what the [undecipherable] [strikethrough: that] what properly ought to accompany the List by way of explanation, would have the effect to wound many persons who might [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] for I know the Doctor too well, to desire he [undecipherable] offend by implicating any persons, and as the publication of the said List would probably [strikethrough: impair,] [strikethrough: more] have [strikethrough: more] [undecipherable] [strikethrough: notice — blame — thought,] I have on the whole thought proper to omit sending you it, and I shall give the Doctor my Reasons at large— M. Rob^t Aitken [strikethrough: text] Philadelphia [Jno [undecipherable] Philadelphia - 9 Nov 1789]