[Free Knox] General Henry Knox FREE. Boston Near Philadelphia Nov 8. 1793. My dear friend The post now being alter'd one must answer your letters before they are receiv'd. The post [strikethrough: comes] [arrives] on Monday and Thursday, and [strikethrough: leaves] post this on Wednesday and Saturdays. If you will write on Sundays, I shall receive it on the monday [undecipherable: probable reading "seven"] day. I will write on Wednesday when you will receive on the same day of the week following — pray direct the [undecipherable: probable reading "postmaster"] to put up my Newspapers [undecipherable: probable reading "Collar"] side and seal them with [a wafer] — I shall then certainly get them. The disorder of Philadelphia is a few days more sure [undecipherable] like a [undecipherable] gone! and I hope for ever. I have not been in yet, nor shall I while I have confidence that a thorough purification has taken place. [I respect—] where my [undecipherable: probable reading "son"] must [undecipherable] from New York on his return to Hingham on the 11^th [undecipherable] and send you at the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable: probable reading "Charlotte"]. He has behaved entirely well — I have written to his preceptor [strikethrough: undecipherable] expressing our [undecipherable: probable reading "satisfaction"] at his improvements. If you see him say [undecipherable: probable reading "civil"] things to him — I have received a [undecipherable] letter from my brother — both [undecipherable] and [undecipherable: probable reading "advis'd"] him — he is really a good fellow and when he shall be employed he will be clever. Gen^l Wayne marched from [the?] Ohio [strikethrough: undecipherable] on the [undecipherable: probable reading "4^th"] of October, but I do not suppose he would leave his advanced [undecipherable] before the 20^th. Six weeks too late on account of the season, the consequence of the negotiations — he will have 3000 regulars, and I suppose 2000 mounted volunteers of Kentucky. Of this [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading "there"] has been some [undecipherable: probable reading "tardiness"] and deficiency. I have no [undecipherable] from Gen^l Wayne but I have a copy of a letter from [undecipherable] showing [he] never [has] been [in] — better spirits or better supplied — I really believe his troops were well disciplined. I pray you heartily that he may [undecipherable: probable reading "succeed"], I [undecipherable] then become a free man! The die is cast and I hope it will come up [undecipherable]! I shall hope to receive [undecipherable] of the proposed alteration. [A packet?] arrived here [undecipherable] — the Duke of York has been [undecipherable: probable reading "stopped"] before Dunkirk. Advices also [undecipherable] Toulon has been given up with the French fleet to England — [undecipherable: probable reading "Genet's"] fleet has again [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading "mutinied"] — part of St. Domingo called Jeremie has put itself under the protection of England — What a news [undecipherable: probable reading "monger"] I am! Adieu — [undecipherable] —