Chantilly May 14, 178[4]

Dear Sir,

When last you wrote to me, you supposed that if your Counter petition got to Richmond by the first of June it would be soon enough -

My advice is, that you send it as soon as you can, because, it is not improbable but that the Assembly may go upon such business early, in which case you might be too late with your opposing petition. We will call at Pecatone, if possible, in our way to Northumberland the last of next week. We all here send love to Pecatone & I am dear Sir

your affectionate relation.

Richard Henry Lee

Notes

Ford CollectionNew York Public Library

Printed in James Curtis Ballagh, The Letters of Richard Henry Lee, Volume 2, 1779 - 1794, p. 290.