George Washington to Richard Henry Lee

Your last favour, by the purport of it, (having no date) as also one or two others, at different periods, have come safe to my hands; and went unacknowledged from the hurried and distressed state of our affairs, and from the knowledge I had, that every occurence, worth noticing, came regularly to you in my letters to Congress. I thank you, Sir, for the mention of Colonel Heartley,

¹ and finding, upon inquiry, that he is worthy of a regiment, I have sent him orders to raise one immediately. I shall, also, enclose Waffendall Kendall’s² letter to some officer to the southward, that his merit and services may not go unnoticed. My letters to Congress, containing everything of a public nature that I could communicate in this, renders it unnecessary for me to add more than my compliments to our friends; my thanks for your kind wishes; and that I am, with affectionate regard, etc.³