[VS/30 No. 41] [41] [undecipherable] July 20^th 1795 Sir, I have written to the Purveyor to provide the Tools requested in your letter of this date — the small quantity of Iron & Steel which [strikethrough: may be] will be wanted, [strikethrough: and] may perhaps be more advantageously be procured by [undecipherable: Col?], [undecipherable] I request you to [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] give directions to that effect. You must be a more better judge than I can be of the expediency of sending a Blacksmith into the Indian Country, and no objection occurs to me against the measure I am Sir The Sec^y of War [4 of Aug^t 1795 Received]