Philadelphia August 21st. 1785
Sir,
The letter that you favored me with on the 18th instant reached me yesterday after the post had left the City, so that the papers enclosed for my signature must be detained until next post day, unless Doctr. Gardener should afford me an opportunity of more quickly conveying them. With the returned papers you will receive also enclosed a letter from the honorable Mr. Rutledge, and one from Lt. Colo. Harmer, both which I received yesterday.1 I pray you Sir to accept my thanks for your obliging wishes for the recovery of my health, which is certainly better than when I left New York.
I am, with much esteem, Sir, your most obedient and very humble servant,
Richard Henry Lee.
Receiver's copy, Papers of Continental Congress, item 78, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
1 For these letters from John Rutledge and Josiah Harmar, both dated August 1 and read in Congress August 24, see JCC, 29:654, 655n; and PCC, item 78, 19:501 - 3, item 163, fols. 480 - 82.