[To: Mr Josiah Fox, War Office, Philadelphia. Free.] [Baltimore 9 January 1796] [Docketing on verso: Cadmus Fetter, 9 January 1796] Dear Sir Baltimore 20^th June 1796 You promised to send me a list of the Stopple and New York live oaks. It is much wanted, and will be acceptable by reason of post; also the dimensions of the trunnel spindle: & Gudgeons, with the proportion of Metal they are made of — Any other Communications, respecting the frigates, will always [undecipherable] received by Your friend & Thomas Truxtun P.S. Stodder & myself, have written the Sec^y of War to have him kind enough to reply; our plank has been fully [undecipherable: classed], in the water, you may be assured, & a Store is all that is wanted, and that Stodder has of his own — [signature] Mr Josiah Fox