Now I have all three pages. Let me transcribe them as a continuous document. [marginalia written vertically on left margin: copy of [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / March 31 1792] Philad^a March 31^st 1792 I have had the honor to rec[undecipherable] your letter of the twenty eight instant. While I lament that circumstances prevent an Investigation of my conduct by a Court of Inquiry, I cannot but acquiesce in the Reasons you have assigned why it cannot take place; and [undecipherable] pleasure to present my thanks for the desire to have gratified me [undecipherable: in this respect], had it been practicable, which you have been [undecipherable] to manifest. In my Letter of the twenty Sixth, I [undecipherable] expressed [my] Intention of retiring from the Army when the Enquiry should be over. — The only Reason I had for [wishing to] retaining my Commission until that time was, that [in the course of this Enquiry] if any misconduct should [undecipherable] appear, I [might] be amenable to a Court Martial, which a Resignation would have precluded. — The House of Representatives, Sir, have directed an Enquiry [undecipherable] into the [undecipherable] [to be made] of [undecipherable] by a Committee of [undecipherable] own Body. — [strikethrough: For] The same Reason that influenced [undecipherable] when a Court of Inquiry was contemplated, it may [undecipherable] [equal force; and therefore] proper that I should still retain my Commission [undecipherable] [But as it will] [undecipherable] be requisite that some Person should be at the Head of the [undecipherable] Army who is to continue to command it, it is [undecipherable: also] necessary that I should inform You explicitly, which I now do, of my [fixed Resolution] [undecipherable] to resign, the Moment [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] to [providing] a Successor [undecipherable] removed. [undecipherable] pleased, [undecipherable] to observe that — my sole Object is to [undecipherable] effect to public Justice, in the usual Way by a Court Martial, . and it appears that, in [underline: any manner whatsoever] The Misfortunes of the last Campaign can be attributed to me; and it is the proper [undecipherable] I believe the only tribunal where military [undecipherable] misconduct can [undecipherable] into and punished; or where an Officers Reputation, infinitely dearer than Life, can be vindicated. — Should the public Service, however, [undecipherable] require that another Officer of the same Rank with me be appointed immediately, I am ready to make the Resignation forthwith, notwithstanding that it may [undecipherable] seem to proceed, and, at a distance, [undecipherable] be supposed to [undecipherable] arisen from a [undecipherable] that the Volume of Calumny [undecipherable] by Malice and [Defamation] [undecipherable] which is daily pouring from the Press into the public [undecipherable] has too much foundation for me to meet it, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to shelter myself in a private Station: I am ready, Sir, upon [undecipherable] Occasion, as I [undecipherable] ever been [undecipherable] others, to sacrifice every private and personal feeling and consideration to the public Good: I have the Honor to be Sir [undecipherable: probable A. St Clair] The President of the united States