[Docket: [undecipherable] Oct. 1796 / Leon [undecipherable: Blandy?] / recommending / Hopkins,] [undecipherable]onville October [undecipherable]ⁿ 179[6] The Bearer M^r [undecipherable] Hopkins [undecipherable] a you Gentlemen [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the ample proof in some of the better [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [copy?] of the [Post?] office of this county from a bad [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [his?] purpose — His character [and?] manner of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [strikethrough: undecipherable] connections he has been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in my employ for the [Register?] [Master?] office, [with?] his attention and diligence to business [much?] esteem — Should it be in your [favor?] to forward him in his pursuit I [undecipherable] am fully [undecipherable: persuaded?] he will [undecipherable: merit?] your confidence [in?] any that may be [undecipherable] in him — I am Sir your most [obt?]. [Your?] Ser^t [signature]