[Illegible Text notice: Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [address panel, heavily damaged; partial text legible at right:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Pittsburgh [undecipherable] duplicate [undecipherable] June 17[undecipherable] [17]93 [received [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] Pittsburgh [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [17]9[3] Sir, I have now the pleasure to [acknowledge] The receipt of [some] of the [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] post, and [it being] [undecipherable] fewer [undecipherable] Dollars [undecipherable] Soldiers [undecipherable], who is two days too late [undecipherable] from [writing] on this as is [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [agree] and [ought] to [be] [undecipherable] [injurious] so long as we [continue] it m[ay] [be] done with the common safety. You will please to [encourage] a proportion [of] [small] notes [under] [50] Dollars by [undecipherable] on use. Enclosed you have a [scheme] [of] Articles [wanted] in the [District]. [undecipherable] [of] the present [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to this place [except] the [delivering] [undecipherable] Pittsburgh, which may [be] [procured] at the [Contractor] to [advantage]. We are in immediate want of [six] or eight Dozen of [Orderly] Books which you will find on [be] the very first [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to remind [undecipherable] the [markets] of [Blankets] were [Article] procured [for] [public] [use] of the [last] [must] as [your] [undecipherable] [they] [were] [not] [our] most [satisfactory], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the best [I] [knew]. [I] am [glad] to [undecipherable] the [Comptroller] [General] has [received] [undecipherable] [warrant] [for] the [appropriation] of the present [quarters], [to] [be] [forwarded] [early] in April. Noth- ing [could] [give] me more pleasure, than to [let] them [go] [forward] with general [approbation] and d[esire]. [I] [congratulate] [you] [undecipherable] [our] country on the [ultimate] [appointment] [of] [Commissioners] [for] [undecipherable] [affairs] and [ability] [of] [the] [enemy] [being] [I] [am] [perfectly] convinced that all that can [possibly] [be] done, [consistent] with the [honor] and [safety] of the Union, must [be offer] from the [best] [abilities] of [those] [wise] [Characters]. Accept accept [of] my [thanks] for [your] [undecipherable] attention to my [object] [respecting] [undecipherable] of [Goods] [transmitted] [via] [undecipherable] and believe me to be, Yours &c signed James O'Hara [D.] Q. [M.] General. [Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r]