Autograph letter signed : Alexandria, to General Greene, 1781 Nov. 23.

Discussing Colonel Carrington and the proposed appointment of deputies in South Carolina and Georgia which he declined to do; saying "that Sick officers, circumstanced as those States were, could render you no service, & consequently none to the public; and that their offices would be mere Sinecures;" praising him for the difficulties he has surmounted and "the glory of your successes - Successes which show the justness of the opinion I formed so early as the campaign of 1777 of your military talents - an opinion which I have Since often repeated;" discussing the disposition of the stores taken from the enemy after the surrender; discussing the disposition of troops with specific reference to the artificers; congratulating him "not on the 'prospects' but the reality of our Successes in Virginia; and I cannot but hope that Such good consequences may result from them as will Speedily terminate he war."