New York 28^th November 1789 My dear friend I inclose five accounts on which I pray you to place your signature, the receipt from you being necessary to the settlement of my accounts Agreeably to your idea when I last saw you, I will thank you for the return of all the warrants which shall not be in a train of being paid by the 15^th of next month as I wish to close my accounts with the treasury by that day. Be pleased to let me know the amount of money that you will probably receive by that time, and the amount of the warrants which will be on hand. What an uproar in France! The instability of human affairs has never been displayed in stronger colors! Clouds and darkness seem to hang over the issue! Our friend the Marquis de la Fayette, how critically circumstanced! I am sorry to learn that you and your lovely Children have been afflicted with the universal influenza — I hope you and they have surmounted it before this time I am my dear friend Yours affectionately H Knox Colonel J Wadsworth—— [FREE] [Addressed: The honorable Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth [undecipherable]] [Docket: New York 28 Nov 1789 / Colonel J Wadsworth / with five accounts for him to Receipt upon —]