Philadelphia, 20. April 1798 Sir, As soon as possible after the receipt of this letter, you must please to provide transportation and send to This [undecipherable] Fifty Housand and two hundred Common Tents of the two you have under your care; the Poles for them need not bear transportation, but you may put in as many as necessary to make the load as [undecipherable] or the case may be. What the Waggons [undecipherable] wish in weight in this way, the transportation will cost nothing for they cannot go more than [undecipherable], and Tents alone will not make a load- your [undecipherable] will govern this matter- To the expense you may draw on me in [undecipherable] to have it paid in [undecipherable] and send a copy of this Cover to Major Craig as your warrant for so doing- do not [undecipherable] be [undecipherable]- I am, Sir, Major Henry Brelinger. your most obedient Servant, Samuel Hodgdon.