[Baltimore. July 15^th 1796 Capt. Truxtun requesting M^r Blagge to forward the timbers wanted for Frigate at Balt^o. [undecipherable] acknowledged] Baltimore 15 July 1796 Dear Sir M^r Stoddert sends you by this conveyance, a list of the timbers wanted of live oak, to Complete our frame, agreeable to your request of the [undecipherable] Current. Shall I request you to urge M^r Blagge to land on these terms, immediately, & we must discharge our [undecipherable: probable reading "Contract"] — [undecipherable] and, if our quantity, Cannot be [undecipherable], at [undecipherable], I will thank you, to requ[est] [undecipherable], at New [undecipherable], [undecipherable] from Phil[adelphia]. as I am [undecipherable] the [undecipherable], to order them [undecipherable] from Phil[adelphia]. as I [undecipherable] — [undecipherable], there is a; late Arrival there from Georgia — I in great haste I Remain Your Ob^t Thomas Truxtun [M^r [undecipherable] [undecipherable]]