Philadelphia Feb^y 1794 My dear Sir I should instantly have answered your favor of the last week, had I not expected that some result might have been had upon the Subject which gives you so much anxiety Macomb has been endeavouring to make such negotiations as would exonorate you from all responsibility, but hitherto without effect. The [strikethrough: man] now declines the one mere a speculation of the agreement made with you whether the one succeed is uncertain. But if he does not at this moment, he may probably before you can be called upon for Payments, and in the last resort, the bargain might perhaps be relinquished But at present the demand is [undecipherable] dollars, as from whence it is not probable the one be able to obtain it. I am my dear Sir Your friend & H Knox Col^o Malcolm [Phil^a 24 Feb^y 1794] [Honors] [Free H Knox] [FREE] [Col^o Malcolm New York] [seal]