Now I have all the pages needed. Let me compose the transcription from the primary source (pages 1–3), using the letterbook copy (page 5) to clarify obscured passages. [Pittsburg [undecipherable] 10] [Addressed to:] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia [Postmark: Pittsburgh PA, SEP 5] [Docketing: Received War Dep^t [undecipherable] 1800, No. 149] [Undecipherable notation, right margin] Pittsburgh 5 Sept 1800 Sir I have received Your letter of the 29^th Ultimo — I am much obliged to You for the Enquiries You have made for a person Qualified to Superintend a Glass Manufactory. W^m Price whom I mentioned to You in a former letter has arrived at this place having come forward in Consequence of our Advertisement & a few lines handed [him] by a Gentleman of this place who seen him in Philad— it appears that M^r Price has been Employed altogether in the Flint Glass Manufactory which differs so very materially from our Window Glass & Bottles that I am apprehensive he will not answer our purpose — The Enclosed letter is from him to a Man with whom he [strikethrough: the] left A Chest containing his Clothing tools &c directing it to be sent forward — [be] pleased to let your man deliver the letter and if [you] please direct one of the Waggoners coming this way to call for the Chest — I presume You have by last Post rec^d [my] Returns attested and Vouchers &c — with respect to [the] missing Abstract [it] accompanied my letter of the 25^th of April last and Your letter of 2^d of May informs me of all the Documents then sent having come to hand — A Duplicate of the Abstract if necessary can at any time be furnished — I am Sir your Obedient Servant Isaac Craig [Addressed:] Sam^l Hodgdon Esq^r Philadelphia