[Note to the Rev^d Doctor Mason Feb^y 10^th 1790] Feb. 10 '90 To The D Mason General Knox presents his complements to and informs the reverend D^r la Mason that it was not untile this moment that he was informed that the Doctor had [strikethrough: not] [undecipherable] unacknowledged [strikethrough: his] [undecipherable] favor, every At the time the Doctors [undecipherable] was received Gen^l K was very happy to he requested one of the Gazette [undecipherable] to acknowledge the receipt — but the favor he omitted Gen^l Knox is of opinion the Doctors ideas as a ford me, of giving an early military education, and the nature there would adopt & [undecipherable] would long experience its beneficial [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] whether under the auspices of the habits of life and as to incapacitate them for any [undecipherable] but fine as those be purchased with money. Gen^l [undecipherable] may give an official answer to this [undecipherable] — may determine a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — tho' the history on the negative — Gen^l K has had under consideration the subject of the academy and the result with [undecipherable] been upon at some future day — He begs Doctor Mason to receive his thanks for the [undecipherable] — they are open — N York 10^th Feb^y 1790.