[Illegible Text. Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [address leaf:] [undecipherable] Hongdean [undecipherable] Philadelphia [undecipherable] [undecipherable] March [undecipherable] [undecipherable] do [undecipherable] fo Saint Nichaols on the [undecipherable] from whence it is probable she will [undecipherable] a freight for Lisbon or some other port in Portugal — I wish you imm[ediately] on the receipt of this letter, to have Insurance made on the Brig Six Thousand Dollars [on the Car?]go Thousand [undecipherable] mine [on the?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] ports of [undecipherable] [Por]tugal [&] the Western Islands [undecipherable] Space of six Months — & if the [undecipherable] should continue longer than the [undecipherable] Six months that I shall have [undecipherable] [undecipherable] mentions [undecipherable] have me [undecipherable] to keep before six months had expired to guard again[st] worst — I can have Insurance made here on the above property [undecipherable] 4 months but on the following conditions— That I shall Insure to the under writers Six months Premium —[undecipherable] [con]sequently if any accident should come to the [Vessel?] in a month [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] within a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] sold in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of 6 months will be required — The conditions are rather too hard for me to accede to — I therefore rest Solely on your judgment to send the [undecipherable] without [undecipherable] as God [undecipherable] when he [undecipherable] the prospects of the Voyages are [undecipherable] If she arrives safe I have, no [doubt] but she will clear her [undecipherable] and make me Something Handsome[ly] I must once more request you to [undecipherable] the Insurance done imm[ediately] and also I mention'd [above?] note from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]oo [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with in [undecipherable] at 30 [undecipherable] That note [undecipherable] he will a[lso] ready to meet it on That time with the one for 2,500 I shall [undecipherable] for collection when due — my love to all [Sin]cerely Yours [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and Hongdean Esq^r