[27] If my memorandum be right I sent [strikethrough: Wilkins the] [underline: letter], by duplicates through you. If so I presume it is not necessary for the certainty of conveyance to send a triplicate. If I am mistaken in the facts above, or of any thing more is requisite in good enough to say — If there is, no reply. It is very extraordinary that I receive no acknowledgement of my letters from the commandant at Fort Mifflin( Elliot I believe) Duplicates went through you. Can you inform me? Has not this Officer too Strong a tow of Independence. M^r Laey seems to have understood you that it was left to my discretion to superscede the interests of recruits, whomso I thought proper — I have not so understood the matter — If then is your ideas we so good as to afford the Y^m truly A Hamilton James M^r Henry Esq^r