[Draft notation — this is a draft document with corrections and strikethroughs] [Docket notation on outer/back of letter, written diagonally in upper right:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] orders [1^o] [strikethrough: Conformably] In Conformity to your requisition of the 17 May I have inclod you copies of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] f Ja [undecipherable] on [me as?] [factor?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the P. Read likewise [undecipherable] for the am[oun]t of [undecipherable] We [undecipherable] [undecipherable] him as P[undecipherable] f Ja & the Sec T[undecipherable], my difficulties for money are [undecipherable] to defray the expenses of the factory that I must try to have money for these bills remitted me unless some method can be devised for my accommodation here. The expenditures are very consid- erable & little money [circulates?] amongst the lead in [trade?]. I had contemplated to receive a sufficiency for the factory us by selling to the [undecipherable] but so many [undecipherable] or per- mitted to come & trade, that they pick up most of the loose [cash?] from the [soldiers?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the plan, I [undecipherable] to the Depart of War [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] counteracting [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable]