[Docket: Col R Butler / march 5^th 1784 / Entered / 3 pa] [Address panel: Captain [undecipherable] Howell [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] at Philadelphia / [undecipherable] R. Butler / [undecipherable]] D^r Sir Carlisle 5^th march 1784 Since your favor of the 9^th [undecipherable] on my arrival from Baltimore a few days since & would have done most of the pleasure to have complied with your requisition had it been in my power ere this — I hope to be in the City in a few days at which time shall take the necessary papers for your facilitation of the Acct. &c will inclose them by first safe hand— The whole of my Right pay has been drawn & paid, all being [undecipherable] & the [undecipherable] pay in daily so that the whole will soon be completed — [undecipherable] the list of the 82 men I shall be punctually forwarded — I thank you for your polite friendly desires for the welfare of my family & the [complts?] & good friend[s] [undecipherable] — I request you to accept of my best wishes & present them also to [your?] worthy brother Jacob — let my good friend [undecipherable: probable reading Beatty] know I should have [answered?] his letter had really had not time by this [oppt?] — I shall be very happy at all times to hear from you & him and am very Sincerely your friend [& H[ble] S[ervan]t] [signature] Cap^t J[oseph] Howell