Cincinnati July the 9^th 1796 Dear Sir Be kind enough to forward the enclosed by a private hand or [undecipherable] conveyance — I hope you can answer my best resp[undecipherable: respects] to [undecipherable] Mrs Hedg[undecipherable] and [undecipherable] — [undecipherable: General] [undecipherable] is [undecipherable: here] — The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] D and my [undecipherable: Precursor] absent I hear he is [undecipherable: sick] — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to visit Detroit [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable: means] it would [strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that would be highly injurious to my [undecipherable: Service] [undecipherable] I have written a private Letter to the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] State Thompson and very much wish his [undecipherable: Advice] because I have high confidence in his [undecipherable: judgement]. with the last Mails mine and old Magazines and Pamphlets from the [undecipherable: Humane] Society [undecipherable] [undecipherable: Boston], under [undecipherable] [undecipherable] charged [undecipherable: from] [undecipherable] — They certainly were not worth it but they give me [undecipherable: Business] for Money — My papers do not arrive regularly — once [undecipherable] times past all — in the last perhaps the 7^th [undecipherable] were missing — as I free them it is [undecipherable] they should be complete — Charles Wilkins was here a few Days past & [undecipherable] requested I believe it will not be in vain) that the Tea [undecipherable: Burnings] should be settled I may receive and remit you the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: J. [undecipherable]] my [undecipherable: Compliments] to [undecipherable: Harris] — [Endorsement on verso:] [undecipherable: Camp] [undecipherable] Rec'd [undecipherable] 1796 file in [undecipherable] [Endorsement on verso:] left for [undecipherable: Morgan] [undecipherable: Elias] [undecipherable] [illustration: two triangular peaks joined by a horizontal baseline]