[From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 6 November 1779]
To Benjamin Harrison
[Williamsburg, 6 Nov. 1779. Cover only survives (in Vi), addressed in TJ’s hand to Harrison as Speaker and endorsed: “Governors Letter Novr: 6th: 1779. Returns Military & Naval Referred to whole House on State of the Commonwealth.” According to (Oct. 1779, 1827 edn., p. 43), the letter was read the same day as sent and enclosed a return “of Maj. Nelson’s corps of cavalry”; it was referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the commonwealth. See TJ to Harrison, 4 Nov. 1779.]