[Administrative notation:] a. 11 of [undecipherable] 1790 / [undecipherable] [Routing notation:] [undecipherable: probable reading Bungers ferry] / from [undecipherable] [Address:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from Oct 2^d, 90 170 Sir I have expected to hear from you on the Subject of my Accounts with the United States and [undecipherable] from the deranged Situation of the [undecipherable: probable reading Public] offices must of course produce delay [undecipherable] in the examination of Accounts I am Obligd as I have for some time past informed you [undecipherable] the Vice [undecipherable] of War to attend to my Western [undecipherable: probable reading Arrange]ments but will always have a [undecipherable] in my place equally responsible— I am just now setting out to the back Country from whence I shall [undecipherable: probable reading return] in the course of the Winter or early in the [undecipherable: probable reading Spring] — Col° John Morrow a man of respectability equal to any has the charge of my Keys and will obey all orders from you & the [undecipherable: probable reading Secretary] of War that may be directed to me or himself in my Absence, I have requested him to Open all letters directed to me from [undecipherable] Philadelphia your as may [undecipherable] attention— I observe that the intended [undecipherable] at [undecipherable: probable reading Harpers] [undecipherable: probable reading ferry] is [undecipherable] a [undecipherable]; should it be the wish of the Secretary of War that I should continue the Superintendence of the [undecipherable: probable reading Post] [undecipherable] is ready for the [undecipherable: probable reading reception] of further Stores, I shall have no [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] my Western [undecipherable], but until then I must of necessity continue my [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]; [undecipherable] [undecipherable] taking care that the [undecipherable] business is not Neglected. Please make this known to the Secretary of War. I am [undecipherable: probable reading with respect &c] Your Ob^t Servant E Langham Major Hodgson