Hartford August 21 ^st 1800 James McHenry, Sir, I have your favor of the 15^th Instant shall ship the Shoes as you direct so soon as an opportunity offers to Philadelphia there is now no Vessel here for that Port and it may be some time before any one Offers, I wrote you the 9th to know if I should ship them to New York to be reshipped to Phila or wait an opportunity directly to Philadelphia. We have thousand pair of Shoes on hand but however my undertaking in making the last Shoes makes it in his place I have certified the one thousand pairs of them are better than the Pattern as you informed us the additional two thousand pairs to have two thousand more than the three thousand pair already contracted for so that is five thousand in all or rather four thousand only.