New York Feby. 7th. 1786
My dear sir1
I have but one moment leisure now, being so lately arrived, unprovided with quarters & the post about leaving the city to transmit to you the enclosures.
Mr. W. situation is deplorable, I am told he is much in debt & the interest of 7 per cent which he pays accumulates [fa]st. Indeed a heavy Judgement will fall on him in the spring term.
He writes to me very pressingly & I loose no time in my communication. Was it in my power I would instantly pay the debt. I will at every loss pay the 50£ you lent me, if you can send a bill for 100£ sterling to him at once it will very much please and assist him.
Eight states are only assembled. We daily expect the delegates from the other states, when the affairs of the empire will be introduced.
My love to my mother & sister. Your aff. son,
Henry Lee Junr.
Receiver's copy, Leesburg Papers (8557-a), University of Virginia Library.
1 Henry Lee, Sr. (1729 - 1787) of Leesylvania in Prince William Co., Va., was a lawyer who married the wealthy Lucy Grymes in 1753. He was a justice of the peace and county lieutenant and served in the House of Burgesses, 1758 - 76, the Virginia conventions, 1775 - 76, and the Virginia Senate, 1780. See also the letter of April 19 from Henry Lee, Jr., to his father in these Letters, 23:244.