Note 970 — Chapter V · (continued 2)

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.)