Now I have enough to transcribe. Image 2 is the primary fair copy of the letter; image 3 is a project separator ("Other Copies") and not part of the document; image 4 is a photocopy of the original at the Clements Library (the "Other Copy"). Image 1 was unreadable. I'll transcribe the primary document from image 2, using image 4 where helpful for disambiguation. war Department. 28 May '79 Dear Sir. I beg to be informed whether you can mount in two days as many guns as would render it perfectly safe for you to go round to New York and return without delay to the Delaware. If this can be done you will give me a list of such articles, as may be wanted for the occasion, and proper to be sent on board your ship to-morrow I am D^r Sir yours James McHenry Cap Barry.