Lee Letter: n143




<br /> Lee Letter: n143

Washington and Lee University

Sender: George Washington
Recipient: Henry Lee

[Headquarters] [13 October 1780]

Dear Sir:

I am very glad your letter of this date has given strength to my
conviction of the innocence of the gentleman, who was the subject of
your inquiry.1 I want to see you on a
particular piece of business.2 If the day is
fair, and nothing of consequence intervenes, I will be at the
Marquis’s3 quarters by ten o’clock tomorrow.
If this should not happen, I shall be glad to see you at head-quarters.

I am etc.4

Notes:

1 Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair. Reports circulated that other general officers
of the Continental Army were involved in Arnold’s treason, and St.
Clair’s name had been mentioned by a Captain Brown in the British
service. (See Lee’s letter to Washington, Oct. 13, 1780, in the
Washington Papers.)

2 Probably the attempt to capture Arnold.

3 Marquis de Lafayette.

4 From the text printed in Sparks, vol. 7, 545. No draft of this letter is
now found in the Washington Papers.