Patrick Henry to Wythe, 18 November 1777

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Letter text, November 18, 1777

Novr 18th, 1777.

Sir.

An Estimate of the probable Expences of the current Year is here inclosed. It is as accurate as I can possibly make it. I have the honor to be

Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
P. HENRY.


The Honble George Wythe
Speaker of the House of Delegates

[Endorsed:] Letter from the Governor Nov: 18th 1777 inclosing estimate of expences for the Current Year.
Refd to Committee of the Whole on Supply.[1]

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  1. "Gov. Henry to George Wythe, Speaker of the House of Delegates (From the Va. State Archives, Ex. Com)" in Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia, vol. 1, The Letters of Patrick Henry, ed. H. R. McIlwaine (Richmond: Superintendent of Public Printing, 1926), 205. Printed letter includes footnote "237" after "current Year": Laid before the House the same day, Ordered, That the said letter and estimate, be referred to the committee of the whole House, on the motion “that a supply be provided for the public exigencies.”