[Endorsement, top right:] [undecipherable] Morris Commissioner Oct^r [undecipherable] 1800— Samuel Hodgdon Esq^m Superintendant of Stores Philadelphia [19] [Received from State Dep't, Nov. 24 1864. R.P.O. 401810.] Sir Springfield Nov.^r 11^th, 1800 Your Letter of the 6^th inst. endorsing two thousand Dollars in Post notes came safe to hand this day. I am again under the disagreeable necessity of troubling you again for advice relative to the Coals contracted for— The quantity has been received agreeably to contract— the Superintendant refuses to certify their account (without which my vouchers will not be accepted by the accountant) under pretence there is a mistake in the measurement I am satisfied there is none & the Captain of the Vessel who brought the Coal & the Contractors are ready to testify they were rightly measured— shall I be safe in discharging the Bill with their Testimony to the truth of it— This Coal has given me much vexation & trouble— merely from caprice & illnature motives of the Superintendant— this I am fully satisfied of— M^r Lyman is still confined to his Bed. the cause of his Complaints is not removed & I am apprehensive never will be— I am Sir, Yours Most respectfully J Joseph Williams