Letter from General Howe to General Washington

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Boston, February 2, 1776.

SIR: In answer to your letter of the 30th ultimo, which was delivered with the seal broken, I am to acquaint you, that having lately discovered a prohibited correspondence to be carried on by Mr˙ James Lovell, the liberty, which I fully intended to have given him, cannot take place.

I am, sir, your most humble servant,

W˙ HOWE.

To George Washington, Esq.