[Fort Wilkinson March [30?] 1800 [Rec^d?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]] Fort Wilkinson ^{March 30th} [undecipherable] 1800. Sir [strikethrough: your favour of the 6^th Ult[imo] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [strikethrough: [undecipherable] [Post?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Late?] this Evening Rec^d your favour of the 5^th Instant, the Mail will be clos^d tomorrow 9 oClock, I will answer your said Letter more fully by next [Post?] as fully as may be in my power in next post, which will leave here the 15^th of next month I shall be happy when, an ass^t arriving, for having had for some time no person to ass^t me about the factory and [a bound] an [Apprentice?] said I brought with me from Maryland who cannot write [them?] I am Sir your ob^t H^ble Serv^t Edward Wright U. S. factor M^r John Harris [Inspect^r?] of Military Stores Philadelphia