[M^r. Hodgdon] [undecipherable flourished notation — includes words "from" and "Irvine"] Philadelphia 24^th August 1790 ii. am favoured with your letter of the 20 instant — I am greatly obliged by your prompt attention to the business of the note, and am well pleased with the result of it — If you cannot exchange the silver in Bank Notes in which case the amount might be endorsed by [undecipherable] keep it until I have made an arrangement to draw for it — I will do my endeavours to have you [undecipherable] furnished with Money and Clothing as you are persuaded with them he could [undecipherable] fill his Company — the Secretary of War [undecipherable] is dangerously ill at Trenton, this circumstance joined to his own ill health retards the business of this Office — I am Sir your ob^t Ser^t Genl Wm Irvine —