Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to General Greene, 1781 Oct. 22.

Saying he has been laid up with the gout; congratulating him on his victory; encouraging him to stay on as commander; saying "...our country essentially depends on your abilities, for her deliverance, the progress you have already made in this great work, has given them a confidence in you which could not be readily impressed on them by a successor; in the mean time, confusion & a thousand inconveniences must ensue. I'll say no more;" expressing his desire for retaliation for the murder of Colonel Hayne; adding, in a postscript, "Victory seems at length to have taken her seat on the American standard, & if that fickle Bitch madam fortune does not out-maneuver Us, we shall, I think, regain Ch's Town ere long. I don't yet despair of seeing Cornwallis neck stretched, as some small sacrifice to the names(?) of the numbers whose necks he has stretched."