[Headquarters] [13 October 1780]
Dear Sir:
I am very glad your letter of this date has given strength to my conviction of the innocence of the gentleman, who was the subject of your inquiry.1 I want to see you on a particular piece of business.2 If the day is fair, and nothing of consequence intervenes, I will be at the Marquis’s3 quarters by ten o’clock tomorrow. If this should not happen, I shall be glad to see you at head-quarters.
I am etc.4
1 Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair. Reports circulated that other general officers of the Continental Army were involved in Arnold’s treason, and St. Clair’s name had been mentioned by a Captain Brown in the British service. (See Lee’s letter to Washington, Oct. 13, 1780, in the Washington Papers.)
2 Probably the attempt to capture Arnold.
3 Marquis de Lafayette.
4 From the text printed in Sparks, vol. 7, 545. No draft of this letter is now found in the Washington Papers.