War department, Aug: 28, 1798. Sir A Warrant has this day passed in your favor as usual, for five thousand dollars, on account of the Quarter Master's dept. The Warrant will be transmitted by the Treasurer, to the Cashier of the Bank United States, for you to Receipt there for the same and receive the amount — this is the arrangement for the payment by Warrants, to persons in Philadelphia. I am sorry to hear you have a case of the Fever next door to you — I hope you and your family may clearly escape — I should thank you to inform me, whether Robert Evans, next door but one to my house in Arch Street, has recovered, or not — also if D^r Sacks has got the better of his attack — I am, Sir, respectfully Your Obedient Servant, Samuel Lewis Sec. Samuel Hodgdon Esq. [address leaf: War department / James McHenry / free // Samuel Hodgdon Esq. / Superintendent of Military Stores / Philadelphia] [postal notation: Trenton 28 Aug] [endorsement, top right, written at angle: [undecipherable]]