Now I have all pages. Let me produce the transcription. [Docketing notation:] [undecipherable] Sargent / to [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] 20 [undecipherable] 1798 [Center notation:] Gov Sargent [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] de [undecipherable] Mississippi Territory — August 20^th 1798 — Accept my good Friend from this Extreme of your Government [strikethrough: undecipherable] my most ardent wishes for the health and happiness of yourself and your worthy wife — I pray God you may know not disease — I think my long Letter relative to our honest Government may have come to your hands — Buy for me Eleven soldiers military Warrants equal to 1100 Acres that in any Event I may meet his nefarious Demands upon me — Wrote you for two Quarter Casks of good Wine I hope you have sent them — if not I think it would be adviseable to ship them by Orleans and add two more Quarter Casks of common red or white — I dont care which — a band of Loaf Sugar and Coffee together — some Olives also with a Little excellent Brandy and any other good things you please to be insured and sent to the House of Ray & Cochran — also a Gross of [undecipherable: best?] [underline: Hares] Porter — the whole to be insured — I think you had best consult [undecipherable] about the Porter — these things are material to me before Winter for without them I must absolutely suffer — pray dont omit therefore to afford them immediate attention — for the enclosed Letter to my sister I request your Attention and that it may go on as soon as possible by a private hand — if no Vessel should be coming round from Philadelphia you will certainly find one at New York — Write me my Friend I beseech you — I require by this conveyance your Friend the Secretary to send me some Papers — if he does not you must — I have asked also permission to visit early next Summer the Atlantic States if this Country should be in Peace and I should have organized perfectly the Government — I send my regards on [undecipherable] usual friendly zeal and I am sure [undecipherable] my health requires it for indeed I have been and am still sick, and I have also as you know private concerns to call me amongst you — I shall not however follow [undecipherable: example?] to quit the Country without leave — adieu and believe me always your friend Winthrop Sargent