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From the letter, it seems, that the officer did, however, resign, and sometime thereafter, it seems, from the letter, the officer who was a [warm?] personal friend of [?] Washingtons, wished to again, go into the [Army?] and wished [?] [to?], to use his influence to that end - This of course, placed the General in a most delicate position: and just here, is where the able, frank, manly, nobility of the man crops out - I feel my face redden, when I remember more than once, in any life to have thought an unrestricted use of pen and ink, had possibly, in a [measure?], molded the character of General Washington as we know it. Now, that I have his letter, 107 years old - I find that mind was the character which was [faulty?] - I know of no letter more fit to be deposited amongst the archives of an institution where [youth?] is to be [trained?] than this letter. Let me commend it to you careful consideration - I regret, that the name of the officer to whom it was addressed does not occur. The