Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Lee Shippen

Last evening I informed you how the business of Residence went on - this day has been passed in practising the same monœuvres that we were entertained with in Senate - Baltimore has been rejected with many other questions proposed for the purpose of dividing the friends of the bill, but they have all proved unsuccessful - The house adjourned - today upon a motion for dividing the time of temporary residence between this City & Phila. - The same was tried with the Senate & rejected, the same fate is like to attend it in the H. of A. - Your friend Count Andreani is gone to see you - I have frequently called on him at his lodgings, but have not had the happiness to find him at home - I still continue weak since my Influenza attack which renders writing unpleasant to me, and only tolerable when I write to friends whom I value as much as I do you, and they are very few - Yours affectionately.

Richard Henry Lee