[Docket, rotated, upper right:] Capt. Williams / Springfield / Aug.^t — / 1800 — [Address:] Samuel Hodgdon Esq.^r [undecipherable] Intendant of [undecipherable] Philadelphia [Received from State Dep't. Nov. 24. 1804. R.P.O.401810.] Springfield Aug.^t 11^th 1800 Sir I have received your Letter of the 6.^th inst. enclosing six hundred Dollars in Post Notes on account of the Armory. agreeably to notice— which came to hand this morning, to gether with yours of the 7.— notifying of your intention of forwarding on more money the next day— I shall expect it, & come to morrow.— I have lately received an Invoice of the articles from Oxford, & have been busily engaged in examining, airing, & repacking, them.— I shall loose no time of making you a Return of their numbers & State— I am Sir most respectfully Your Obedient Serv.^t Joseph Williams P.S. I know not yet the nature of the charges which are to be exhibited against me— J.W. Samuel Hodgdon Esq.^r