Safe Conveyance of the Box
Document 1798Mrs. Murray had intended to send a box to her brother with Mr. Goodhue but fears that he will leave Philadelphia before her letter arrives. Therefore, she asks Hodgdon to send the box with the enclosed letter by the first safe conveyance and to inform her when it is shipped. She fears the box may be broken and contents lost because of the rough road on which it will travel but trusts Hodgdon to pay every attention to the business.
Accts Streat 128 Colonel Samuel Hodgdon To the care of Captain Gage Philadelphia [Stamped:] Received from State Dep’t Nov.24.1894. R.P.O.401310 [Editor’s Note: the following is handwritten on the same page, but facing in the opposite direction on the page from the preceding] Mrs. Murray 2 May 1790 Recd 16th Boston Franklin Place May 2d 1798 My Dear Sir I wrote you this Morning, under cover to Mr Goodhue, ac quainting you with my design to address a box for my Brother to your care, but as Mr Goodhue may leave Philadelphia before my letter reag reaches that City - I take leave to repeat my request that you would send on the box, with the inclosed letter, by the first safe conveyance. and that you would have the goodness to apprize me, by a line, of its arri val, and the day on which it sets out on its journey over the moun tains. I am fearful the box may be broke, and the contents lost or injured, over such a vast extent of rough road – but I have perfect confidence that your kindness for my Brother, together with your gene ral benevolence, will induce you to pay every attention to this business. I tender my regards to your family and I am with respect &c &c
Your
J. Sargent Murray
Colonel Hodgdon Philadelphia
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