Philadelphia Decr. 5th 1780
Dear Sir,
The enclosed was this Day put into my Hand which I have now the Honor to forward to your Excellency.1
My Time being this Day expired which by the Constitution I cou’d sit in Congress, I am preparing to get away & hope soon to have the Pleasure of seeing you in Annapolis. I wish some of the new appointed Members wou’d come forward to keep up a Representation.2 Mrs. Plater offers her Compliments to your Lady & I am with the highest Respect,
Dear Sir, Yr most obt Servt.
Geo. Plater
Receiver’s copy, Revolutionary War Collection, Maryland Historical Society.
1 Not found.
2 For the state of the Maryland delegation at this time, see John Hanson to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, November 28, 1780, note 3.
Plater also wrote to Lee on December 7 introducing two French officers, the comte de Custine-Sarreck and the marquis de Laval. Lee, Horsey, and Carroll Papers deposit, MdHi.