[Private] Georgetown Aug^t 13^th 1800 Dear Sir Your friendship on former occasions [undecipherable] me to request a loan of One hundred or 150 do[ll]ars un til [undecipherable] of the quarter. — I should not have been under the [undecipherable] of asking the favor were it not for the many advances I [undecipherable] under the necessity of making here. If you should favor [undecipherable] the pleasure to forward me a Post note for [undecipherable] amount, [and] you may either draw on me or I will [undecipherable] you a note for the amount at the expiration of the [undecipherable] — Our Situation here requires a constant Supply [of] Cash, and without it there is no living. — [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be removed from the building we now occupy to one further up in the City opposite [undecipherable] build[in]gs it is believed that our present Situation will be too inconvenient, and I believe rather unhealthy. — I [undecipherable] pleased to learn of the continuance of health in the [undecipherable] and pray it may continue during the Summer. [undecipherable] Dear Sir yours [undecipherable: probable V. Hagn or similar] [paraph] to Samuel Hodgson [Ph]ilada [Docket: Received; (Private); Samuel Hodgson Esquire. Philadelphia]