My dear Sir
I wrote to you last week to inform you how happy I found myself in being able to accept your obliging invitation on board the Apollo. I directed my letter to Sherpham Devon: but not knowing your post town possibly it may have miscarried. I therefore trouble you with one line more to say that Government will soon grow impatient for my departure & to request from you intelligence of the real time you think you shall be ready. I now beleive I shall be dispatched upon expeditious reasons & that I shall save you from the trouble of a Convoy.
If my first letter did not reach you be so kind to inform me & I will repeat what I therein mentioned & beleive me with truest regard Dear Sir [&c.]
J: Burgoyne
Hartford Street March 6 1777
1. Sir Henry Clinton Papers, CL.
