[Page 1 of this document is represented by an "Illegible Text" placeholder card indicating the page is wholly or in part illegible.] Philad. 20^th Jany 1799. Dear Sir you know the [undecipherable] of selecting fit & qualified persons for the [undecipherable: proposition] of officers to the [undecipherable: draw] from S. Carolina & Georgia for the [undecipherable] additional regiments, was confided to your uncle. I mentioned your wish to him, while here, and I see no other wise account for the absence of your name [in] the list he [has] sent [in], and which is [long] by this time before the President, than by supposing that he has [undecipherable: nominated] you for the Provisional or [undecipherable] army. I think it [will] be proper more [undecipherable: readily] to your uncle who is charg'd with [undecipherable] selections for [this] army. with [sincere] esteem & D^r Sir your ob^t James [undecipherable: McHenry] [undecipherable marginalia, left margin] [Col. [undecipherable] Morris Esq^r]