[Private] Baltimore 13 May 1792 P. Dear Sir, I have just answered your public letter of the 8th Instant. In answer to your private letter of the [last,] 4th, [strikethrough: above] it is necesary for me to assure you that your other private, of the 3^d, was answered in the same hour in which I received it; which was about six o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th Inst — and the letter was sent the same evening to the post office. I am very sincere in the appology I have made as well in my private as in my public letter. There is no fictitious reason in either for my non acceptance — But, my Dear Sir, to be yet more candid with you, I perceive no temptation [undecipherable] and there in the consideration, which you enforc[e] of being [underline: second] in command — With Sentiments of Esteem and Respect, I am, Dear Sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant O. H. Williams [Gen^l Knox]