[Illegible Text. Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [Endorsement on address cover: John / 28 [undecipherable] / unanswered] [Address (verso): New York / Nov: 1792 / [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Secretary / John [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [New] York [undecipherable] 25 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I wrote to [undecipherable] I had the [undecipherable] of an Interview [undecipherable] you at [undecipherable: G? Putnam's?] when you [undecipherable] State of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] acres, which [undecipherable] in a very [undecipherable] Situation and am Sorry to [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Better. [undecipherable] your Kind [undecipherable] in the most [frank?] [undecipherable] manner, to [undecipherable] of [undecipherable], in [a] comp[undecipherable] [i]nt me [s]ome Birth [undecipherable] the Government it [undecipherable] War Department or any [undecipherable]. You In [undecipherable] — we, in doubt [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Add great[undecipherable] to the Happiness of your friend, [&] his [Num?] of Families, [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] in Want — If you know of None, let a further [undecipherable] [by] Interest, in Writing, to General Lincoln in My Behalf. Respecting A Vacant Birth in the [undecipherable], which is in his [undecipherable], Owing the Resignation of M^r [undecipherable: Harrington?] and[undecipherable] [undecipherable]ctor, Showing the Intimacy and [undecipherable: Friendship?] that, [undecipherable] Belie[undecipherable] — you, — [I] take no Doubt Your [undecipherable] Influence will have [undecipherable] Weight with him in [undecipherable: procuring?] me [undecipherable] [undecipherable]ppointment, or any Other [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] To procure me this Birth and [undecipherable] me to Write you on the Subject, and Flatter me with the hope that your [undecipherable: humble?] Interposing in my favour, will [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] for [undecipherable]. Wishes [undecipherable] you all Health. and Happiness [undecipherable] General You Very Humble Servant John Langston To General Knox