Acknowledges her letter; is pessimistic about the drift of national policy; mentions bill for raising a 50,000-man army and the Embargo and Non-Intercourse Act; tells of his two-hour speech to Congress; plans to come home in five weeks; discourses on religious matters.

Encloses letter to Gen. Ebenezer Huntington and requests that it be forwarded.

Two letters, from Benjamin Tallmadge to his daughter Maria and to Governor John Treadwell of CT. To Maria, he writes of the difficulties his minority political party faces in Washington, including his efforts to defeat a bill to raise a standing army.

Tallmadge's note to Treadwell indicates an enclosed letter to General Jedidiah Huntington on the subject of the militia.

Contains three resolutions commandeering some linen belonging to Lockwood to by used by Tallmadge for shirts. Photostat.