Both images show a single folded letter. Image 1 is the exterior address panel; image 2 contains the letter body but is scanned upside down. I'll transcribe image 2 by reading from the bottom of the scan upward (the correct reading order), followed by the address endorsements from image 1. --- [Docket, image 2 top, right-side up: from [undecipherable] Esq^r / [undecipherable] Williams] Philadelphia [undecipherable] 30^th, 179[7] Sir [undecipherable] one to my present need. of the honor — that you may have [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] happy [undecipherable] thanking you very for the [undecipherable] compliment has had respectable attention here — [undecipherable] any no violence. he [undecipherable] your good claims to [undecipherable] thence — Your friend M^r [undecipherable: probable reading Lymon] is [undecipherable] from the Superintendent on account of [undecipherable] on of work to [be] done in the factory, as far as I can obtain — [undecipherable] come to hand, the letter this morning enclosing [undecipherable] [undecipherable] hundred dollars in letters to [undecipherable], which are to be paid at your credit — I am Sir most respectfully Your obedient Servant [signature: undecipherable] [Address panel, image 1: Samuel Hodgdon Esquire / Intendant of Stores / Philadelphia] [Postal stamp, image 1: Received / Sent from / Nov [undecipherable] / R.P.O. 4018[undecipherable]] [Endorsement, image 1, top right corner, partially torn: [undecipherable] 1800 / Rec'd [undecipherable] 1800]