[Philadelphia, [undecipherable]] I am favoured with your [undecipherable] — am happy to find you are closing your accounts in the Quarter Masters Department — be mind after a part or up to the [undecipherable] to have accounts of such and get them adjusted — mine are nearly closed here, and when a few advances are taken up they will be finally, so — for this purpose I must solicit your attention to the requisited drafts — I received a letter from the [undecipherable] by this Post, by which I perceive he will be detained awhile longer — my answer goes by this Post — With respect to the Pay of the [undecipherable] you need be under no apprehensions whether or not received by the [undecipherable] the Master General — I can put you in a way to have it, and all other authorised claims received and paid — when he has finally determined on it, let me know — It is a little extraordinary to hear of Troops mov- ing from Pittsburg to the Eastward — a collection of the Troops to commence winter quarters in the same [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Regiments is contemplated — [undecipherable] will not succeed — All business in Congress and indeed every where else has been suspended since the melancholy news of the Death of the immortal Washington — every one is anxious to pay repeated homades to his memory — Congress will take the lead in this business, and determine this night — it is a more unfortunate [undecipherable] this time — but it becomes us to say "thy will be [undecipherable]" I am S^r, your most Obedient Servant Samuel Hodgson [Address panel: Majr Isaac Craig / [undecipherable] / [seal] / [undecipherable: Port]] [Postal notation: 30] [Docket notation: from [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]]