To George Washington from Henry Lee, 16 February 1792
From Henry Lee
Richmond, Va., 16 Feb. 1792. Transmits an extract of a letter from Mr. Taylor, one of the commissioners of the marine hospital at Norfolk, Virginia.1
LS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, Vi: Executive Letter Book.
1. The enclosed extract has not been found. On 8 Dec. 1791 James Taylor sent Gov. Henry Lee a statement of the accounts of the commissioners of the marine hospital at Norfolk, Va., and a copy of their resolution requesting the governor to issue a warrant to their clerk, William Newsum, for £25 out of the state’s marine hospital fund ( 5:407). For the state marine hospital at Norfolk, Va., see James Nicholson to GW, 13 Feb. 1790, n.1; Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Marine Hospitals, 17 April 1792, n.2, in 11:296.