I hope it is unnecessary to make assurances of my disposition to render your situation both easy and respectable. I am sure it is unnecessary to remark, how inadequate the provisions have been, which the States have hitherto made. At least, it is unnecessary to you. Much less need I display the detail of expenditures, which have been requisite for the accomplishment of that happy event, which has taken place in Virginia.
I have neither forgotten nor neglected your department. I have done the utmost to provide clothing, arms, accoutrements, medicines, hospital stores, &c.; and I flatter myself that you will, through the different departments, receive both benefit and relief from my exertions. I have detained Captain Pierce a day, in order to make up with infinite difficulty, one thousand pounds Pennsylvania currency in gold, which he is the bearer of, and which will, I hope, be agreeable and useful. You have done so much with so little, that my wishes to increase your activity have every possible stimulus. I hope soon to hear that you have gathered fresh laurels; and that you may wear them as long and as happily as they have been speedily and worthily acquired, is the earnest wish of yours, &c.
ROBERT MORRIS.
END OF THE ELEVENTH VOLUME.
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