New London November 8^th 1798 Sir Inclosed, you will Please receive an Inventory of the Tools and Materials sent from this Place to Harpers Ferry, Also the Estimate of the expence incurred in doing it. The money I have promised the Waggoners to have in Readiness if Possible for them against their Return which will be about the last of the Month, and I have to beg you will Please send it to me by that time If Practicable. I was something at a loss from the tenor of your letter to know whether I should send any Gun Stocks to Harpers Ferry but considered it would be best to Send a few, the balance I have here can be sent at any time you may think Proper to direct it — In my letter to you of the 18^th of last August when writing [Thomas Holt / New London Nov: 8. / Received, d: 19 1798] [Addressed to: James [undecipherable: probable reading McHenry] Esquire / [undecipherable: probable reading Secretary at War] / Philadelphia]