Autograph Letter Signed

No Secret Motives

Callender informs McHenry that the communications he handed to Mr. Edwards are from General Wayne, and that he transcribed them a year ago. The series of interrogatories is entirely misplaced. There is nothing secret about the particulars, and he should have asked him directly.

1796

05

17

Baltimore

Philadelphia

James McHenry

James Thomas Callender

Mr. Edwards

General Anthony Wayne

Philadelphia

Baltimore

motive

communications

secret

series of interrogatories

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Baltimore 17 May, 1796.

Sir

I handed to Mr. Edwards some
Communications from General Wayne.
He, this day, in your name, asks the
Source of my information.
The papers were transcribed by
myself above a year ago, but not from
your office; So that the Series of interoga
tories is entirely misplaced.
The particulars are not a Secret in
Philadelphia, and had an enquiry been
made with frankness, it would have met with a frank return, for there
are no motives to Concealment,
either on the part of myself, or of
the Gentleman who transmitted the
means of information
I am [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Thomson Callender