[Address cover. Postal stamp: NEW YORK. Docketing on right: "[undecipherable] Buchanan / 19^th Sept — 1800 / [undecipherable]". Receipt stamp: "Received / State Dep^t / Nov 24 [undecipherable] / [undecipherable]". Filing number: (164). Address: "[undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Hodgdon Esq^r. / Philadelphia."] New York Sep^t 18^th 1800 I once more (and I hope for the last time on this subject) take up my pen to inform Col: Hodgdon, that since my last Mr Davis has been transfered to the N York & Mr Dod[undecipherable] his has been appointed Surgeon to the Adams, in opposition to the wishes of Capt. Robinson of the Adams — who had wrote in my favour — there is a Truxton, a Morris & I believe every Commander (Capt. Robinson excepted) has been allowed the choice of his Medical officer. — Why or wherefore my name has been the cause of Capt. Robinsons request being denied I know not — I shall however freely forgive (but feel to hardly ever to [undecipherable]) the reiterated mortifications & disappointments [undecipherable: which] in the [undecipherable] multiplicity of his goodness, has been pleased to heap upon me — . Accept Sir / My Sincere Acknowledgements for the Concern & Interest you have taken in an affair which (if it is any consolation to you) has aided in [undecipherable] all [undecipherable] mortifications all & every one — of the friend of your Most Obt and ever Grateful Humble Serv^t — W S Buchanan Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r