Philadelphia 4^th Octo 1800 Sir — Having visited Gov^r Mifflin with the Secretary of War to day I did not receive your letter of the 1^st untill so late to make a lengthy reply — The return and vouchers which accompanied your letter will be examined and such information given as the circumstances may require — If morrow I attend the Secretary to view the great Public Buildings erecting on Junipile after which he is to dine with one — your business shall be attended to — When M^r Gary returns forward my best respects to him — The President is expected here to morrow or next day — The Secretary will accompany him to the New City — General Wilkinson will not be with you for some weeks — He is now at Washington — Be pleased to forward the enclosed by a safe hand — your obed^t serv^t Samuel Hodgdon Major Isaac Craig