[Postal docket, wrapper: Pittsburg 10^th May 1799] [Archival stamp: RECEIVED FROM State Dep No. 30[undecipherable]] Pittsburg 10^th May 1799. Sir I have this moment received Mr Banges' letter of the 3^d inst — in answer to mine respecting a distribution of Medicine and Hospital Stores for the Mississippi Posts and shall pay attention to the Directions therein, but am apprehensive that it will be found very inconvenient for the Commanding Officer at Loftus'Bluffs to send to Natchez for Stores a distance of One thousand Miles — The Articles purchased for Capt. Lyman are not yet come to hand. I presume they have escaped Mr Harris's Notice in the hurry of his business — I am Sir your obedient Servant [signature] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Philadelphia