Now I have all the images. Let me compile the full transcription. [The first image is an archival "Illegible Text" placard; the fifth image is an archival "Enclosure/s" placard. Transcription proceeds from the document pages.] [Cover leaf — address panel:] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire [undecipherable] [Endorsement, rotated:] John [undecipherable] 1790 [undecipherable] of this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [Copy] Philad— May 25^th 1798 — Sir herewith is [undecipherable] [Treasurer's?] orders to me to send all the [undecipherable] that I had; but [it was] meant all I [undecipherable] I should [have] done [undecipherable] certain [undecipherable] to the Navy Yard — He has repeatedly told Mr. [undecipherable] & [myself] individually to continue mak- ing until he should tell us to stop — [the] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] upwards of 25 [undecipherable] made & [in] several hands employ'd making more, [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] three days the price he told me [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I do not [undecipherable] what age I might [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it is [that] [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] pro- -[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [past] years and [undecipherable] [which] [undecipherable] by letter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of April last — [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] several [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the Algerian [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to dis- by his order [undecipherable] not begin this year [continue] making — did not begin this year I should [undecipherable] nothing to complain of — but on the contrary I was encouraged to go on [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] not only from his, [ordering?] those which are sent [to] Cap^t Smith [&] [undecipherable], but from his sending a Message to me by our [young?] [undecipherable], that I was not well [undecipherable] being put to the unnecessary trou- -ble of [undecipherable] them for want of an [undecipherable] — He then called at two, three either that or the next day, I went to [undecipherable] to ask my Pardon the same day [undecipherable] me this [Order?] for the Mt. [undecipherable] — and it [undecipherable] me in this unnecessary trouble, [undecipherable] me, he would [undecipherable] to having the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Remission [of them?] — I only state these [undecipherable] that [you] may [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] had not a right to [undecipherable] construe them into [undecipherable] [undecipherable] part. I do consider all I have [made?] as [intended?] by him for the Parties — — I am with sentiments of Respect Sir your Obedt Servant [undecipherable: probable reading W. Godfrey] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire [Enclosure:] Send to the Navy Yard all the round Cannon Ball of the following [Sizes?] and take Captain [Manly?] Or Cap^t. Smith's Rec^t. which will [serve as?] [undecipherable] [S. m.] for payment by 18 pound 9 [pound?] 6 [pound?] Add the [porterage?] to the Bill [This was Rec^d the 15^th or 16^th [inst?].] [Verso of enclosure — three lines of text heavily cancelled with ink strokes, undecipherable]