[Docket: 40 Aug 2 / Annual [undecipherable] Corps / 2^d [undecipherable] of Stores / W. Philadelphia] [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24, 189[undecipherable]. R.P.O. 401810.] [Colonel [undecipherable] Williams] Springfield Aug. 2^d 1800 Sir, In perusing your letter of the 25^th attentively which I received on the [undecipherable]^th enclosing one thousand Dollars in Post Notes on acc^t of the Armory, & which I broke open my letter of that date, to advise you of the agreeable event, my mind is filled with apprehensions relative to my Estim[ate] for July — What can have become of my letter to you of the 7^th ultimo — My Estimate together with the Pay & Muster Rolls of the Armorers as handed me by the Superintendent was enclosed with a letter to the Hon. Secretary of War dated 8^th July — which I carried myself to the Post Office with yours of the [undecipherable]^th [undecipherable] for that days Mail — fearful the Estimate &c has met the same fate of my letter to you, I have this day wrote the Secretary on the subject & of my Apprehensions — & enclosed him a Copy of my Estimate for July, which I hope will get safe to hand— Before you get this Warrant I am fearfull I shall be embarrassed for want of money to answer the demands upon me on account of the Armory — I am impatient to here from you [undecipherable] to my letter to you of the 29^th ultimo — which I hope has got safe to hand — I am most respectfully Your Ob't Servant Joseph Williams P.S. Will you be so obliging as to inform me what fortunate attends the numbers 1562, 1563, & 1564 — Lottery for completing St. Augustines Church in Philadelphia I rely on your goodness to [undecipherable: probable reading "excuse"] the liberty I take in this — J. Williams [Address: Samuel Hodgdon Esqr]