My dear Sir:

I have received your letter and flatter myself you
do not question my desire to serve an old brother soldier.
My money is not for the moment in my power; it is disposed
of in a manner to which the answers are not yet come to hand.
I am moreover under some particular anxiety respecting it,
which I will explain to you when we meet on my return from
Virginia and Pennsylvania on the fifth of February,

Washington Jan.19

Letter from General Lafayette to Major Joseph Wheaton
upon soliciting aid for the U.S.Army during the War of