Head Quarters Providence 3rd August 1778
My Dear Sir—Some time since I wrote you that I should need no more Rice forwarded—but finding the french fleet in need of it I wish you to forward immediately to Providence as much as you can possibly Spare.1
Sullivan Papers 2: 168. Addressed: "Honl Majr Genl Heath Boston—"; notation: "(on public service).”
1. See Sullivan to Heath, 25 July, and Heath to Sullivan, 25 July, Sullivan Papers 2: 115–16 and 117–18.
