[Sam^d Hodgdon 1^st below] War Department 10^th Decem^r 1800 Sir I have received your Letters of the 1 & 4^th instant. All the Copies of the [underline: Treatise on Fortification] that were in the War Office were destroyed by the fire. I must therefore request that you will engage for the printing of five hundred Copies with the plates annexed as soon as may be The Muskets that are in need of repair you will please to have put into the hands of Workmen who understand the buisness perfectly, for that purpose agreeing to make them an equitable Compensation. I accede to your having the Lost Colours of the 3^d Regiment replaced agreeably to General Wilkinson's Directions I am Sir Y^rs