After congratulating your Excellency, as I do most sincerely, on the continued Respect and Confidence of your Country, manifested by their placing you again in the Chair of Government over them; I beg leave to trouble you with a little Affair that relates to myself.

When I went to France, I left here a Quantity of Printing Letters, which my Attorney Mr. Bache tells me were sold to your State for Public Use; but no Agreement was made ascertaining the Value, he being unacquainted with it. All the Accounts I had of the original lost, as well as of the Quantity, which was bought in Parcels at different Times and of different Persons, are lost; so that I know not how to make a Charge for them; especially as they were not weigh’d nor any Inventory made of them, nor of the other Printing Utensils delivered with them. As this Transaction pass’d under your former Administration, what I now request is, that your Excellency would require of the Printer who receiv’d them an Account of the Weight of the Types, expressing the different kinds, (because they are different Prices) and also a List of the other Things that accompanied them. When I have obtain’d such an Account fom him, I shall be able to make out mine; and I doubt not your kind Assistance in procuring the Payment. With great Esteem and Respect, I am, Sir, Your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble Servant