Philadelphia May 22d. 1781
Dear Sir,
I have receivd your favor of the 18th instant & hope by this you have got rid of yr fever. I shall by the first good opportunity send the hat, & Stuff for yr great Coat. The Best Beaver hat cannot be got under £6 to £6.10 Gold. I shall at the same time send you an acct. of the disposition of Your money.
A French frigate is arrivd at Boston. Monsr. Barraus came in her to take the Command of the Squadron at New port in the room of Monsr. Ternay. Genl. Washington writes that he was upon the point of Setting out to meet the Count de Rochambau & Monsr. Barraus to Settle the plan of operations for the Campaign.1
The enclosed paper contains the Substance of Genl. Greens Letter.2 Underneath are mentionâd the Officers Killd & wounded of the Maryland line.
I am with great esteem, Yr. Excellencys Most Obt Ser,
Danl. Carroll
Receiverâs copy, Emmet Collection, New York Public Library.
1 For Washingtonâs letter of May 17 announcing his plans to meet with the comte e Rochambeau at Wethersfield, Conn., see Washington, Writings (Fitzpatrick), 22:97 - 98. For the results of the conference, see ibid., pp. 102 - 7, 119 - 22; and Freeman, Washington, 5:285 - 90,
2 Nathanael Greeneâs letters of April 22 and 27 had been read in Congress on May 21. See JCC, 20:519; and PCC, item 155, 2:39 - 50. His letter of the 27th describing the April 25 action at Hobkirkâs Hill, near Camden, S.C., was summarized in this dayâs issue of David C. Claypooleâs Pennsylvania Packet.