[Address: Hodgdon Esq.^r / Philadelphia] [Docket: [undecipherable] / Isaac Craig / Pittsburg / [undecipherable]] [Pennsylvania postal mark] Pittsburgh 6^th September 1799 Sir, I have received your letter of the 30^th Ult^o informing me of the very distressing state of your City, and of your determination not to quit your post — to which permit me to observe that notwithstanding I admire your firmness; I sincerely wish it may be sufficiently tempered with prudence. A removal from the city is certainly attended with many inconveniencies, but all that can possibly occur in that way cannot balance a loss of any one of your family. — No letter from the Secretary of War nor Q. M. G. this day, nor has Fenno's papers arrived; it is said that both Fenno & the Editor of the Aurora have shut up & fled — Of course the danger must be great in the City.— & I have taken a liberty of having you constituted Attorney for the purpose of obtaining a Military Land Warrant, which when obtained you will place to hold in your hands for me.— I am Sir, Your obedient [undecipherable] Isaac Craig [Address on cover: Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r / Philad^a]