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New York 21,^st Sept. 1799

Samuel Hodgdon

Sir

Your favor of yesterdays date has just come to hand, inclosing a draft for [flourish] 3950.28/100 Dollars and thank you for your punctuality in remitting, as I put great depen-dence thereon [flourish]

I have written to My friend at Albany respecting the business of having a magazine [undecipherable] there for [undecipherable] the United States, given [undecipherable] no satisfactory information as yet on the Subject, but days, [undecipherable] a price of Grovner might be obtain'd from the Cor=peration, about a mile from the City for that purpose, I expect to [undecipherable] a line from him in the Course of a few days, and hope I shall there be able to affor'd you something