[Vienna, June 11^th Free The Honourable James McHenry Esq. Secretary at War Philad.] [Endorsement: [undecipherable] Murray / June [17]96] My dear Sir, Hindman & I arrived safely & pleasantly — but to my sorrow I found M^rs Murray exceedingly ill — scarcely able to walk — & so reduced that I have every reason to apprehend the most serious consequences to my happiness in this world — She is certainly in a decline — & I fear a rapid one! —— I think of the Springs — & then of the sea — the idea is the last — I shall endeavour to get a stout boat and go out for two or three weeks — I am my friend very miserable — my absence has contributed I believe to her present state — She has fevers almost constant — her digestion almost ruined —— I feel a comfort in telling you of the gloom of my own mind & know that because I know that no throng of business & affairs can preclude sympathy between us — I am with compl^ts to M^rs. McHenry sincerely & affect^ly Y^rs W.V. Murray. Cambridge 7. June 96. Can you do me the favour to obtain for me a Land [undecipherable: probable reading "Law"] for the N.W. Territory — & if you can not, to inform me whether Soldier & officers' land warrants are anywise affected by these laws — I do not recollect that they are / have so said — but wish to be accurately informed (if my own acts)