[The Hon'ble Major Gen'l Alexander Hamilton New York.] [Administrative notation, lower right: undecipherable; 8,341-[undecipherable] / [undecipherable]] [Undecipherable opening lines] [undecipherable] received information of your arrival [undecipherable]. I hastened to this place under the pleasing reflection of seeing you in person, but unfortunately you had left this place the same day I arrived — In conversation with The Honor the L^t Governor. I was informed that my name in the list of Candidates for Military appointments was returned for a Captaincy — as my first and only application addressed to ^you by Letter in an early day — and by my friends to Major [undecipherable] at Philadelphia was for a Majority [strikethrough: undecipherable] I have thought proper to obtain Letters of recommendation from Excellency Governor John Jay Gen^l Philip Schuyler and his Honor Stephen Van Rensselaer on This Subject and have forwarded the Same to the Secretary of War under these circumstances I have thought proper, provided you conceive my service entitles me to your notice, to Solicit your [undecipherable] influence further on This Subject — which will be ever mind my gratitude remembrance — If it is not to great an intrusion on your condescention — I Should derive a great Satisfaction to recieve your answer on this Subject I have the Honor to be with respect Your Most Ob'd^t Hum'ble S^t [undecipherable signature] Albany. Aug. 27^th 1798 [For the Maj. Gen^l Alexander Hamilton]