[undecipherable] Dear Sir I part for Pittsburg will set off to day with-out awaiting the arrival of one from thence. I should be very unhappy to have the papers for Kirkpatrick with this mail — Besides the information you will recollect that it was proposed to send 2000 dollars to him — [undecipherable: Unless] upon me at once I fear there will be a forfeiture — I have nobody to send to the [War] Office to give directions about it I will thank you to send — or rather to go there there may be no forfeiture. M^r Lewis must call on me with a [undecipherable: receipt] for the money — and at the same time he can bring the information for me to sign. T. Pickering Saturday morning S. Hodgdon Esq^r