Pittsburgh Dec. 14^th 1792. Dear Sir I have this moment received yours of the 7^th Instant. and have the pleasure to inform you. that the Barrels by M^r Brotherrington. arrived a few days ago in Complete Order. agreeable to your Invoice. The sum of two thousand five hundred Dollars and thirty thousand Dollars tied by the three preceding Posts. makes — Thirty two thousand five hundred. the two thousand five hundred remaining of the thirty five thousand Dollars. drawn by you on Account of the Quarter Master dept. You will please to retain. as I shall have occasion to Call on you for Sundry Articles for Use of the department. — I am in hope I shall not. obliged to — trouble you for any more Cash. before Next May. and that the Specie now received will be Sufficient. to Circulate Bank Note. so as to Draw no More Specie out of the Treasury — am General with his Troops are very Comfortably fixed in Winter Quarters. I supposed you know the Stob. they are well Supplied. with Forage Provision and fuel. and in a fair way of having a plentifull Market. from the South west Side the Ohio. — You will See from different Quarters an account of the Stroke the Enemy gave us on the 6^th November before Fort S^t Clair. It appears as if they were ready to dispute the fatal Spot of the 4^th with us Over again. — this does not Look much Like peace. —— I am. Dear Sir. your Mo. Obed. Hum. Servt James O'Hara D. M. G. Sam^d Hodgdon Esq^r you have been imposed on in my Letter paper. It will not do. the diamond fellow who Split and folded it. thinks any thing is good enough for back Woods. — I want large and finer. a few Ream J. O'Hara [Address panel: Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r / Philadelphia] [Docketing: 2^d / Dec 14]