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Mount Vernon June 6, 1799

Dear Sir,

I have been [duly forward?] with youe letters of the 11th, 19th and 21st of last month with their inclosures.

Deferring to my letter of the 13th [?] for the reasons which [?] my having a personal knowledge of such Characters in Virginia, as may [?] to be selected for Officers in the [?] or provisional Army -- and leaving [?] therein the difficulties which would arise from the extent of this State -- and that, in order to obtain the [necessary?] information, I must solicit the aid of others in whom confidence could be placed, [?] as [?] from a letter. I have received from General Marshall, and of one from General Lee, in answer to letters I had written to them on this subject. From there you