Pittsburgh Aug^st 25. 1791. Dear Sir This day I am honored with yours of the 18^th Inst. I offer you my sincere thanks for your Kind Attention to my formal requests. — Your forgetfullness is amply atoned by friendship. The Emount [strikethrough: I shoud] I have desired, and wish I shoud have [strikethrough: been] remitted it, but not being able to do it, you must attribute it rather to misfortune than otherwise — please to make out of it. I trouble you on my Return, — you will oblige me by calling at the Post Office for me, and by taking out [undecipherable] — desired to me, this Express I will also pay — & To morrow we depart — M^r Hodgson will acquaint of us — [undecipherable] to make my respects acceptable to M^r Hoydon & M^rs Morris, & to my other friends in Phil^a. Adieu, I am Sir, Y^r Most Obed^t Sir— J. [undecipherable: Tarrasentin?] [address panel:] M^r William Knox. Philadelphia [annotation, rotated:] Letter from [undecipherable] Company August 25. 1791