Head Quarters, West Point, October 10, 1779
Dear Sir:
I yesterday received the enclosed intelligence which I have transmitted to Lewis town at the Capes of Delaware, in hopes it may meet Count D’Estaing there. But should he have left Delaware before my dispatches reach him, you will, upon his arrival of the Hook, communicate the inclosed, with such other occurrences as may have come to your knowledge.
I am, etc.1
1 The draft is in the writing of Tench Tilghman.