New Brunswick Jan^y 16^th 1799 Sir, Agreeably to your request I have to acknowledge the receipt of two bales of clothing with your letter of the 11^th Inst— They arrived here on the 13^th and answered exactly to the invoice— I am Sir, Your obedient humble Servant Wm R. Boote Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r [Postal address on cover leaf: 2 Samuel Hodgdon by [undecipherable] / Philadelphia] [Docket notation on cover leaf, written at angle: [undecipherable] / Feby 10, 1799 / [undecipherable]] [Filing notation on cover leaf: 13/2]