[Address page. Center:] Samuel Hogdon / Intend^t [undecipherable] Stores / Philadelphia [Top right, docket notation:] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] / Albany / [undecipherable] 26 [Circular postal stamp] [89] New York 26 Sep^th. 1799 Samuel Hogdon Sir Your favor of yesterdays date has just come to hand, inclosing a draft for $3950.28/100 Dollars. and I thank you for your punctuality in remitting, as I put great dependance thereon — I have written to My friend at Albany respecting the business of having a Magazine erected there for act. the United States, he has given me no Satisfactory information as yet on the Subject, but says, he supposes a piece of Ground might be obtain'd from the Corporation, about a mile from the City for that purpose, I expect to receive a line from him in the course of a few days, and hope I Shall then be able to afford you something definitive in this business — I purpose to have the guns proved in a day or two, and will make you a Report thereon — I enclose You a Return of Cloathing wanted for Cap^t W^m Cockran's Comp^t of A & Engineers, and have only to observe the Coats Vests. I will furnish myself &find on, — and Remain Sir Your H^ble S^t [undecipherable: probable reading "Wm Stevens"]