Remarks that Col. [David] Humphreys is qualified to fill either of two vacant offices; mentions setting off for a visit to his mother [Mary Ball Washington] in Fredericksburg, [Va.]; postscript: requests that he offer Washington's respects to [Anne-Cesar], chevalier de La Luzerne, [Francois Barbe-] Marbois, and General Armand [Armand-Charles Tuffin, marquis de La Rouerie], and mentions that Washington will attempt to see them before they return to Philadelphia.; American Philosophical Society