[967] Irving's Washington, iv. 96.
[968] Sparks's Washington, v. 529; Austin's Gerry, i. 356.
[969] The writing in which Washington conveyed this reprimand is about the most adroit piece of literary composition which we have from his pen, and he contrived, while complying with the sentence of the court, to signify his estimate of the venial character of the offences, and to pronounce what some have considered a practical eulogy on a brilliant soldier. (Isaac N. Arnold's Arnold, Irving's Washington.) The former book gives a full examination of Arnold's career during his command in Philadelphia (chapters 12-14). For the trial, see Sparks's Washington, vi. 231, 248, 261, and App. p. 514. The trial closed Jan. 26, 1780. Congress ordered the report of the trial to be printed: Proceedings of a general Court-Martial for the trial of Benedict Arnold. Philadelphia, 1780. It was reprinted in a few copies for presentation, with introduction, notes, and index, by F. S. Hoffman, in New York in 1865. A letter of Arnold, transmitting the report to President Weare of New Hampshire, dated March 20, 1780, is in MS. Miscell. Papers, 1777-1824, vol. i. p. 156 (Mass. Hist. Soc. library).
[970] It is believed that the writer of this letter was Beverley Robinson, a loyalist in the British service. The letter is only known through the French version in Marbois' Complot, and it has not passed without some suspicion of its genuineness. (Cf. Arnold's Arnold, p. 275; Sargent's André, 446; Mag. of Amer. Hist., Sept., 1878, p. 756; Reed's Jos. Reed, ii. 54, etc.)
[971] Several attempts at invasion from Canada are supposed to have been timed in unison with Arnold's plot (Hough's Northern Invasion, New York, 1866; Lossing's Schuyler, ii. 407.)
[972] Sparks's Washington, iii. 2; Irving's Washington; Lossing's Schuyler, ii. 52; Arnold's Arnold.
[973] For views of this house, see Boynton's West Point; Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 140; his Hudson, 236; his Two Spies, p. 95; Harper's Mag., iii. 827. Cf. Sargent's André, 263; Mag. of Amer. Hist. (Feb., 1880), iv. 109, by C. A. Campbell.
[974] Johnson says (Mag. of Amer. Hist., viii. 731) that Varick's papers show that Arnold's letter to Anderson of Aug. 30th never reached André, though Sparks and Sargent print it as having been received. This is the letter which Sargent supposes may have been conveyed to André by Heron. This and Arnold's of Sept. 15th are the only ones of "Gustavus" preserved. Fac-similes of a part of one of these letters, with a portion of one of "Anderson's", are given in Sparks's Arnold; in Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 146; in the Cyclop. of U. S. Hist., ii. 1410, etc. Cf. Harper's Monthly, lii. 825. Fac-similes of Arnold's passes are in Lossing, ii. 155. These passes are printed in Dawson's Papers, 60; H. W. Smith's Andreana; McCoy's edition of the Proceedings, etc., and in other places.
[975] There are views of this house in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., i. 25; Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 152; Harper's Mag., iii. 829; his Two Spies, 82; his Cyclop. U. S. Hist., ii. 1411.
[976] This view is given in Lossing's Field-Book, ii. 185.