[Marginalia, address panel, top right, rotated: Maj. [undecipherable] / Rec'd / [undecipherable] July [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] July 12 1798 Col Samuel Hodgdon Sir I have your favor of the 11 current and the cloathing for [undecipherable] has arrived and are forwarded. I have before the [undecipherable] to mention to you that [undecipherable] is very willing to render any services for the [undecipherable: probable reading public] service that is within [undecipherable: probable reading my] power at this place [.] [undecipherable] the contract for the supply of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not be contracted for [.] I [undecipherable] that from my convenience and being [undecipherable] at the spot where all the [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] that I could afford to do it as low as any [undecipherable] am in the [undecipherable] of purchasing large quantities of provisions for [undecipherable]. Any thing you can recommend [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am with much resp[undecipherable: probable reading ect] [Signature] [Address panel: Col Samuel Hodgdon / [undecipherable] Mail] [Docketing notation, address panel, left side: [undecipherable] 14 July]