[Captain John Smith] [[undecipherable] — 25 July] [Rec'd 24 — 1800] [(115)] [Received from State De[p]t. Nov. 2[undecipherable] R.P.O. [undecipherable]] [Philadelphia] [Major [undecipherable] Headquarters [undecipherable] copy] U^t S^t Brig Sophia July 23.^d 1800 Esteemed Sir Yours of the 21 Instant came to yesterday wherein I Received the inclosed bill of fair. I can but hartly thank you for your Kinde attention to us since my arival at the quarantin ground: the provision that we have Received are good — And I have forwarded a few lines to Mess^rs Jones & Thompson as I find by their letter to me that they furnish the supplyes — I stated to the for fourteen people at one [undecipherable] th of Meat & day Vagataibles as they think Nessery for the same I Remain Sir your Hume Major Jan: Hodden [undecipherable] Capt & [undecipherable] In Smith