21From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams, Jr., 8 April 1779 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Too much Business, too much Interruption by friendly Visits, & a little Remaining Indisposition, have occasioned the Delay in answering your late Letters. You desire a Line “relative to the Complexion of Affairs.” If you mean our Affair at this Court, they wear as good a Complexion as ever they did. I know not what to advise concerning Mr. Monthieu’s Proposition....
22General Orders, 8 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
A board of General Officers to be composed of Majrs Genl Greene (if present), Lord Stirling, St Clair and De Kalb and of Brigadiers General Knox, Woodford and Muhlenberg is to sit tomorrow morning ten ôClock at the Orderly-Office to take into consideration the rank and an arrangement of the officers in the Maryland line and to state the same: The Commander in Chief will lay before the board...