[I remain be g looking over a N^o of the letters of Col D [undecipherable] of Lee Olee & H.D. on P in a Pa Reg^t — has for gotten the N^o — N^o 7. 98 —] [Howell] New Yorke Office of Army Accts. New York 31 March 1790 M^r Henry Swan I have this day received your letter of the 26 In^st. wherein you request to be informed if the accounts of Col^l Henry Lee have been settled & incase they are not to forward to you the accounts & papers left with me. — I have to inform you that I know of no accounts or papers belong to the person you allude to Neither has any accounts of this nature been settled in this office — I conceive you must be mistaken in respect to the papers being put into my hands, for had they been, they would certainly would be filed in [undecipherable: position] but which they are not, neither are they on file with the accounts unsettled in this Office. I am Sir very hum Sert Jos Howell [March 28.98 —]