Sir I will thank you to send me soon for the use of the Officers several setts of large & small ensigns, [undecipherable: pennants] & Jacks, and let me know by printed letter, what officers have accepted, and when they will be here, & I shall have this well thatched, the first tide & wind that will suit we are bending the three top sails, Courses, Jib & stay sails, and from [undecipherable] ing to leave Baltimore — Write me any news that is going, and what Congress are doing — Cap^t Barron after the fort & [undecipherable] lieutenants of the British fleet, have been on board, they all say the Constitution is the first ship they ever saw — three of the officers were in tears — yr very Ob^t in haste Baltimore 25 eMarch 1798 — Thomas Truxtun [BBI13]