[docket notation, image 1 — largely illegible due to document condition] New Orleans June 6 [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sir — I arrived here on the 3^d inst & expect to Embark [in a few] days hence on the 10^th [undecipherable] di- rectly for the [undecipherable: Port of?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I have Offered two [undecipherable] have given [four?] hundred [dol-] lars for a passage in the [undecipherable: Ship?] which bears this on her [undecipherable] a good [undecipherable: Sailer?], but find my[self] excluded by a band of [the] [undecipherable]ans, who had [undecipherable: anticipated?] [my?] application, contrary to my expectations. I do not find an [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in port, & that [undecipherable] [I am] obliged to Embark on [a] dummy Ship. The circumstance is [undecipherable] a painful; but unavoidable [undecipherable] You have under cover a Duplicate of my last, the original being transmitted a quarter [undecipherable] — with [undecipherable] consideration on a subject I [have?] the Honor to be [undecipherable] [signature: undecipherable] G[undecipherable] Mo[undecipherable] [address]: Major General Hamilton