[undecipherable: archival notation, top right] New York 21 Feb^y 1790— My dear [undecipherable]— I have received your favor last evening dated the 14^th instant. I have this day have some long conversation with M^r Corgie. The result is this that if the Congress should fund the debt [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] of the Treasury, that he will [undecipherable: assume] immediately the — make special arrangement with [undecipherable: Nolton] for us to discharge your firm [undecipherable] ties, not but to enable you to avail yourself of the firm [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of China ones for— 2^d That if you then arrive at [undecipherable] must [undecipherable] on Turkey, where your [undecipherable] accompany with a [undecipherable: letter] holding up their idea of [undecipherable] from your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and also that you will make the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he [undecipherable] [undecipherable: manage] and [undecipherable: endorse] the first [undecipherable] Their [undecipherable: promise] that he [strikethrough: he shall not] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], be obliged to any [undecipherable] on his business. [undecipherable] pay [undecipherable] unless Congress funds [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable: gratuity]? [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on [undecipherable] of M^r [undecipherable: Hummelstein] I therefore advise you to [undecipherable: dissemble] [undecipherable] here in [undecipherable: Boston] and leave the [undecipherable: letter] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: transpose] the time to — [undecipherable] can get the first [undecipherable: compromised] so as to be— [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]. I will get Corgie to [undecipherable: endorse] it as proposed, and place the [undecipherable: sum] in [undecipherable: Mess^rs] Hoffmans hands. The [undecipherable: sum] to be remitted to [undecipherable: London] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: paid], to be carried [undecipherable] amount of the insurance of your Ship [undecipherable]. This is one [undecipherable: confidential] [undecipherable] insurance [undecipherable] [undecipherable: be kept] of this [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] In this case [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Hoffman] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] up [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — write to me [undecipherable: carefully] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] If so not how you will be able to affect an insurance unless the arrival of the Jay— In you will — [undecipherable: find] by [undecipherable: Mess^rs] Hoffmans [undecipherable: letter] that the [undecipherable] Brittons decline altogether [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] any policy on the ship Jay— It is however M^r [undecipherable: Laws] Opinion that you may safely go [undecipherable: when] trusting your insurance to the arrival of the Jay, which will be about [undecipherable] [undecipherable] you may arrive at the [undecipherable] Cape— Such things are certainly [undecipherable] I know and feel for your [undecipherable] But remember they are all [undecipherable] [undecipherable: sufferable] — look [undecipherable] them with composure and keep up your Spirits— M^r Jay has been out of Town I believe you have [undecipherable: forgotten] to apply for a [undecipherable: few] [undecipherable: letter] — [undecipherable] of importance or not you can determine I [undecipherable: have] however apply, better [undecipherable: say] for one and [undecipherable: then] [undecipherable] you will find [undecipherable] on the oath [undecipherable: take] your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] he and [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] owned [undecipherable] [undecipherable: believe] we [undecipherable: oblige] of the [undecipherable: United] States, M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is [undecipherable: more] [undecipherable: commanded] [undecipherable: manner] principally or [undecipherable: entirely] by [undecipherable: Americans] I shall [undecipherable: endeavor] to get the letter for you by [undecipherable: Mess^rs] [undecipherable: Hoffman] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of the return of this [undecipherable: post]. I shall also write you [undecipherable: further] [undecipherable]— [undecipherable: yours] sincerely [undecipherable]