GEORGE WASHINGTON TO ROBERT MORRIS.
Head Quarters, October 18th, 1782.
Sir,
I take the liberty to enclose to your care, a letter for the Chevalier de la Luzerne, on the subject of expense, which at his request I have incurred, for the purpose of forwarding intelligence of the movements of the enemy at New York, to the Marquis de Vaudreuil.
If our circumstances would admit, I should be very glad that this expense should be defrayed by the United States; it is infinitely short of the debt, which gratitude imposes on us. I submit therefore to your judgment, whether to deliver the enclosed, or to send forward the money from your own funds, agreeably to the monthly estimate sent to the Minister.
The chain of expresses was instituted about the middle of August, and will probably be continued till the sailing of the French fleet from Boston.
I am, &c.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.