Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay
Approves the removal of the War Office to Trenton due to the Philadelphia yellow fever; forwards correspondence concerning Hugh McAlister's claim for money from the War Department. Asks that McHenry review the evidence and see that justice is done.
Adams is pleased that the instructions for envoys will be prepared in a few days; asks McHenry's advice on the deployment of them and the frigate that will carry them -- some will go to Lisbon, one perhaps to Constantinoplea, and the frigate's cruising in the Mediterranean is contemplated. Wishes to avoid delay of negotiations with the Turks, as negotiations with the French have already taken so long. Regrets Philadelphia's yellow fever, as well as the disagreement of treaty commissioners, which Adams will write about soon in detail.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Long travel times of letters to and from Trenton caused Hodgdon to request that Craig's letters not be enclosed per usual practice to expedite their delivery to the War Office. The city is "in ruins" due to unknown causes that hurt the city's credentials.
