[Cover docket, right side, rotated:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] / In his camp moved to be [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [Cover docket, lower left, rotated:] Feb 16. [undecipherable] / To [undecipherable] / 1790 [To Knypher] [XXVII - 4/208] New York Sunday 31. Oct^r 1790. D^r Sir I have just received yours of Friday. I then anxiously expect yours [strikethrough: to] [undecipherable] and I am convinced Mr Mead [strikethrough: was] Did not decidedly [strikethrough: have] taken Hunter House on Friday evening, and therefore if Hunter is a man of his word, [strikethrough: that] [I am undecipherable: confidently] that he [undecipherable: would] let it to [you]. This arrangement will be far far preferable to Budden's house. Indeed Budden's house will be truly inconvenient to us, and is only to be adopted as a last resort — if [undecipherable] you cannot [undecipherable: obtain] Hunter's [undecipherable] very [undecipherable: reasonable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [strikethrough: [undecipherable] Office] [undecipherable] will [undecipherable: be in] Philadelphia [undecipherable: by] Thursday. I [undecipherable] you therefore kindly [undecipherable: prepared] to [undecipherable: receive] them [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] be [undecipherable: perfectly] tight, and comfortable, and the ceiling new white washed, and the [undecipherable] board work either white washed or painted avery light color nearly white. & like [the] cheapest rooms — My furniture will be [undecipherable: packed] in the course of this week and [undecipherable: embarked] by Sunday next — My family [undecipherable: altogether] will leave [undecipherable: this] on Sunday next, and if all is ready [undecipherable: they] will be in Philadelphia on Tuesday or Wednesday of the next week at [furthest] — if [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] hereafter for their reception they will halt a day or two at [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] my poor Colonel Ogden, and [undecipherable] moved to [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] Philadelphia — I am particularly [undecipherable: sensible] of the trouble I [undecipherable: give] you but I know my [undecipherable] of your kindness induces me to rely on you impertinently [undecipherable] on [undecipherable: other] person — I am my dear Sir Your most [undecipherable: affectionate] Humble [undecipherable: Servant] [K] Pray let me know further [undecipherable: by return], the [undecipherable: day] you [undecipherable: intend] that I may govern myself accordingly — & General [undecipherable: Stodgard?] R[undecipherable]