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in my opinion be more elegant, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] desirable; as smell for the Coat, as for the Waistcoat, if the latter is to receive any._

____. If there are workers in this way ^^{in Philadelphia} (and the French are most likely to understand it) they will, no doubt, have a variety of the Patterns to [undecipherable] from. ^{& I pray you to examine them}^

The Eagle too, having becomes part of the American Cockade,_ has any of them been brought into use yet? _ My idea of the size is, that they ought not to be larger than would cover a quarter of a button^{at most} and should be represented (for the Officers) as clothes with ^^their feathers. _ This any [indecipherable] deliver with can execute_and if four were sent to me, I would thank you; and ^^would remit the cost, as soon as it was [undecipherable] known to me._

I must further beg, that proper States? for the Epaulets (the latter I [undecipherable] may be sent to me with the other articles, that I may be equipped in dress, at least_ and if there are any tasty? Cockades (but nor whimsically foolish) in [undecipherable]? _ or any one, who can make them, I should be glad if they were [undecipherable] with the Eagles fixes thereon ready to be placed in the hats. __ Does the [undecipherable}. ² [undecipherable] them?