[Colonel [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Cincin[nati] [undecipherable] 179[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Man] [archival stamp] Col. Sam^t Hodgdon — Philadelphia Cincinnati 16^th April 1798 Dear [undecipherable] Upon the last [letter?] received some short time since you observe that my wishes as expressed in a certain date[s] had been anticipated — keeping no copies of my [letters] to you I know not where those wishes were and if they were about the big Trunk and the detail which were to have been added therein I have since lamented my being without them which is, and my being her[e] been [underline: extreme] inconvenient to me. I [hope] yourself and M^rs H are well — I have been continually sick for many weeks past [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] so but am I believe recovering — adieu [undecipherable] [signature] [undecipherable]