ALS, on behalf of the friends of H. P. Tuttle, asking for Tuttle to be discharged from the army so that he can become an assistant paymaster in the navy.
ALS reporting that because his stereotype plates were destroyed in a fire, Paulding may request changes, confidentially, before the plates are recast in Philadelphia; annotated in pencil by Paulding, instructing a secretary to reply privately to Emmons that no improvements are necessary.