[undecipherable] Dear Sir, Philadelphia Sep. 19. 1793 I have just received your favour of the 11^th from Albany. The disorder prevailing in Philadelphia will prevent your coming here. [undecipherable] heard [undecipherable] to know that place (or rather his country residence on Schuylkill) to day going out-ward. [undecipherable] they all leave at New York; and I [undecipherable] then again in what shall be proper respecting the Settlement of the accounts of our expedition. I think [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] without delay, make a [undecipherable] of every thing which has fallen [undecipherable] consequence [undecipherable] contains also a [undecipherable] I carry the trunk [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] nothing better could take charge of it. He [undecipherable] ought to inform in a letter to me. On my arrival here last Friday (the 13^th) I found a few and [undecipherable] sick, supplied with the prevailing disorder. [undecipherable] are now nearly well, under D[undecipherable] [undecipherable] management. This city seems [undecipherable] devoted & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] there [undecipherable] my family out of it. I am now under less apprehension of danger but I believe that the multitudes who have died, have fallen [undecipherable] to a mistaken mode of treating them. Yet the [undecipherable] under that [undecipherable] still in [undecipherable] among the humanity. D. Rush is in [undecipherable] left [undecipherable] the president his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the beginning of a carriage to renew his visits to his numerous patients. While I was at his house, there came in a young physician whom I did not know, to tell the Doctor that he had now found his method of Bleeding & purging successful. — After he was gone D. R. told me the name of the young man, & that [strikethrough: perhaps] 200 had been left under his practice — which was on the system of Kuhn & Stevens. I will thank you to send me a line respecting the trunk of papers and the account of expenses. I am affectionately your Timothy Pickering [Gen^l Lincoln]