[17 May 17[undecipherable] Tho^s Callender &c particulars of a [undecipherable] edition of a the [undecipherable] Gen^l troops & in Army & corps my [undecipherable] for] [James McHenry Esq^r Secretary of War Philadelphia] Baltimore 17 May 1796. Sir I handed to M^r Edwards some Communications from General Wayne. He, this day, in your name, asks the Source of my information. The papers were transcribed by myself above a year ago, but not from your office, So that the Series of Interrogatories is entirely misplaced. The particulars are not a Secret in Philadelphia, and had an enquiry been made with frankness, it would have met with a frank return, for there are no motives to Concealment, either on the part of myself, or of the Gentleman who transmitted the means of information. I am &c J. Thomson Callender.