[29 May Secy of Treasury Oliver Wolcott] [seal] [Relative to borrowing Col. Orr from the S. army] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Private] I have perused [strikethrough: the received] your draft of a letter with a conviction that if it is sent, the object of obtaining Col Orr's assistance will be defeated — There exists [strikethrough: in] an unkind spirit of rivalry and want of accommodation — it will not do to notice or complain of it — but the fact should be known. I do not know that Col Orr will like the proposed proviso, or would undertake it — if a letter to him & one to Mr [undecipherable] were to be enclosed to Capt Wadsworth we could manage the matter — and I am willing that he should be instructed not to copy Col Orr [strikethrough: if] it on enquiry the factory would be injured — [strikethrough: this] cannot however happen — I am yours with respect [signature] May 28 — M^r McHenry