[draft] "…I wish for your happiness & think it so intimately connceited with my own that to hurt the one is to wound the other and from this principle although I leave my Lucy to the favor and mercy of less disinterested hazards than yours yet I shall not oppose you entering the Army after you have accomplish'd in part what is absolutely necessary of the happiness of our little family - I desird Major Sayres to sned you the Cloaths &c in a Trunk from Sprinfield - All my Summer Waiscoat and Breeches are at New Haven[.] I have desird Lucy to write for them - there is a Hat at New Haven I wish might be forwarded to me If I remember the Linning of it was black either get the Linning of that chang'd and send it me or get a new one made in Boston and send it [2] on to Springfield - There must be allow'd of that Account I paid Mr. Austin Genl Washingtons Coat & Linning - buy me two pairs white Silk Stockings. it would not be amiss before you came into the army to learn to ride - keep your knees close to the saddle & bring in your toes - those people at Dartmouth and Ebenezer Garey of some place in Connecticut ought to pay their debts - I should be happy to oblige Mr Harrod In paying him for the Year I did not occupy his House - but it is so Absolutely Repugnant to my Ideas of Just and equity that I cannot bring myself to pay him that peice of politeness - please to make my Compliments & excuse to him - If we had our Army or a large part of it on the spot we should be able to give great Britain so deep a Wound that the very remembrance of it would make her bleed at every pore for fifty years hence - evry thing however is right are order'd by Providnece for the best …"