[Intendant of Stores Office] [20^th Oct 1800 C^o Hodgdon respecting Stock Clasps Srjeants Coats &] [Israel Whelen, Esq^r Purveyor [undecipherable]] Intendant of Stores Office, Philadelphia 20^th October 1800. Sir, To enable the Store Keeper here to complete the orders for Clothing which he has received, the following Articles are Wanted, which you will be pleased to provide immediately, viz. Seven hundred & fifty Stock Clasps, Fifty Infantry Srjeants Coats; Twenty Musicians Coats. — The three thousand Shirts already ordered is embraced in the Clothing under order, none of which can be forwarded until they are received. If, the whole is not ready for delivery into the Store, be pleased to send in such portion of them as are made. — The Stock Clasps may be procured in a day or two. And as the Coats are only to be cut out, they also may be had without much waste of time. The advanced season of the year caus loudly for dispatch — I am, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, Samuel Hodgdon Israel Whelen, Esq^r. —