[undecipherable: Letter from] / [undecipherable] / Pittsburgh / Aug^t 24 1792] Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia Sir Pittsburgh, August 24^th 1792 I have taken the liberty of troubling you with a few lines, Relative to my compensation as Clerk in the Quar^te Master Office, — The Compensation Stated in the Act Col: Hodgdon sent up, I think very Inadequate — I have Considered (having never made a particular agreement with Major Craig) that it would be thirty dollars P Month and Subsistance, — the attention to this office is far from being Small; all Receives & Issues of different departments, as well as payments, of Various kinds, are transacted thro which Col: Hodgdon is not a Stranger to, — and every probability of the business, increasing, in stead of decreasing; I therefore friendly Request, that Col: Hodgdon would Intercede Relative to it, as to make the Compensation after adequate, to its nature — — I am with perfect Esteem & Friendship you most obet Hum: Svt Arch Read Sam^d. Hodgdon Esq^r.