[Small Webster] [78] War Department 17^th December 1800 Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10^th 11^th & 11^th instant. The Map & Hydrometer of the Department also came safely to hand. There were two copy's of Commissary invoice in the War Office. It appears from your & Mr. Tousyn's letters that the larger one, which was adorned with a number of embellishments of price and beauty given the Toilet Offices is the only one that you have engaged to have copied. Perhaps however one of the smaller size conformable with which I request you to have a plate prepared with as little delay as possible. If the smaller one can be finished sooner by postponing the larger one, you will please to give order accordingly as it is much wanted. You are authorised and requested to purchase the Articles called for by the Superintendent of Military Stores agreeably to the lists forwarded with your letter of the 11^th on file in my Office. General [undecipherable] is agent for the Department at New York, Archibald Carey Esq^r at Newport Rhode Island & Jonathan Jackson Esq^r at Boston. There are none at Portland, Hartford or Baltimore. I have directed the Treasurer to transmit to you Two Thousand Dollars to enable you to make the required purchases. Sam Sir W^m.