Note 5 — THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ARTHUR LEE,
Reading edition
There are only two fragments of the original of this letter remaining, but there is in the office a copy of the whole, endorsed as follows.
“Copy of A. Lee’s letter to the Committee of Secret Correspondence, dated June 3d, 1776, and taken from the original in the cover of a Dictionary, which was delivered to the Secretary of Congress, by Robert Morris, on the 4th of September, 1778, and to the Committee of Foreign Affairs, 7th December following.”
This copy, as well as the endorsement, is written in Mr Lovell’s hand, and attested, James Lovell.