1To George Washington from John Collins, 16 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
It is with the greatest reluctance I trouble Your Excelly With repetitions, but my distress’d condition compells me to it. being destitute of A Relation in this Country to espouse my cause, nor Support Sufficient for an Existance, but lodged in A cold Goal, not possess’d of a Blanket, to cover me with & not a farthing to purchase one. When I wrote to Your Excellency the 24th of January last,...