Colonel Samuel Hodgdon Philadelphia To the obliging care of The Honorable W Goodhue [editor’s note: the following lines are upside down] 134 1/2 [editpr’s note: the number is circled} Aug 7

1798 Wm Murray [undecipherable] May Boston Franklin Place May 2 1798 Dear Sir I am seriously apprehensive that the frequency of my application to you, will at length exhaust that kindness by which I have been so essentially advantaged - but I know not to whom else to address myself - Although I have this day written to you by post under cover to Mr Thatcher, yet learning that the schooner Sally - Captain Gage Commander - will sail with the first favorable wind for your City - I take leave to apprize you that I have sent on board a box for my Brother, addressed to your care - you will have the goodness to attend to this box, and send it on to Cincinnati by the first safe conveyance - and if you can find a moments leisure to advertize me of its arrival, and the day on which it com-mences its journey over the mountains, you will add essentially to my debt of gratitude - I am fearful the box may be broke, and its contents injured, if not lost in the conveyance over such a rough road - but I have no doubt that you [undecipherable] give the proper directions I trust that you have received the volumes of the [undecipherable] addressed to you and that they have answered your expectationsI tender my affectionate compliments to your family and am with respectful esteem [undecipherable]your most obedientJ. Sargent MurrayColonel Samuel HodgdonPhiladelphia