Head Quarters, West-point, July 28, 1779
Sir:
By his Excys desire I wrote to you this morning requesting your attendance here on the very subject mentioned in yr letter of this date.1 He still requests you will come on, after making the necessary inquiry’s in order that the scheme you propose may be adopted.
I am, etc. 2
1 Lee’s letter is not now found in the Washington Papers.
2 The draft is in the writing of and is signed "R[ichard] K[idder] M[eade]."