W.D. Accountants Office March 15^th 1794 Dear Madam I have just received your letter of 7^th Ulto and in consequence enclose a copy of an abstract of pay of 9^th Regiment of Pennsylvania late of the line of the Continental Army with copy of General Butler's receipt thereon for the amount Dollars 1194 which will discover to you the nature of the business on which a stoppage took place from his pay and which was usual in such cases— If you mention having the vouchers for the expenditure of that sum, if you will enclose them to me under cover to the Secretary of War, there will be no expence attending the transmission, and I will arrange and state them so that you may not have either trouble a expence on that head— I most sincerely sympathize with you for the loss of a near a Connection and which I regret that the public is deprived of a virtuous and faithfull servant, I am to lament that the same fate has torn from the circle of my friends one of its highest ornaments— With an assurance of my desire to be serviceable to you and of the freedom with which you may command one— I am with great esteem Mrs Maria Butler Madam— [undecipherable: probable reading "Yr. Hble. Servt."] Pittsburg— Joseph Howell