West Point September 3^d 1797. Sir, I received yesterday your letter of the 28^th Ultimo with its enclosures, viz: an account of Clothing delivered to Sundry detachments of the Corps of Art. & Eng. the Same has been duly entered in the Quarter Master's Book of the Reg.^t I am happy to hear that the alarm about the dreadful yellow fever, is partly unfounded, and that your family and your Neighbourhood are well, receive my congratulations upon it. The departure of the war office from Philad.^a and its removal to the country, is a circumstance which gives me pleasure, for it is [undecipherable] useless to expose valuable public men to the danger of disagreeable feelings, and perhaps of experiencing the influence of the dreadful calamity and Death. they have enough to bear with, without exposing themselves willingly to useless Danger. — I am, Sir, Your hble Serv^t Steph. Rochefontaine Sam. Hodgdon — Esq.^r [Address panel: Sam. Hodgdon Esq^r / Superintendent of Military Stores / Philadelphia] [Docket notation upper right, partially legible: Cl. Rochefontaine / [undecipherable]] [Postal notation: 15]