Pittsburgh 21^st Jun. 1799 [O^r] Sir I have received your letter of the 11^th instant covering M^r E. King's Receipt for one hundred Dollars of you at his departure from Philadelphia — M^r King says he has [hopes] through your means of his bag[gage] being transported at the expence of the United States As I shall shortly have a Settlement of an Account to make with Capt. Cornelius Lyman I shall have occasion for a Bill of the Articles purchased for him by you and which I presume you have charged to me — You will therefore please send it by return of Post — Nothing new at this post the recruit=ing Business succeeds quite as well as was expected — but great complaints for Clothing — I am Sir, Your very obed Serv^t [undecipherable] Samuel Hodgdon esq. Phil^a [cover address:] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r / Philadelphia [postal notation, upper right: [undecipherable]]