human
Your zeal and active services, Washington wrote back to L'Enfant,
gpt
(all that was done in that line was not by Steuben alone), rendered his services quite useful. His gifts as an artist, his cleverness at catching likenesses made him welcome among his brother officers. He would in the dreary days of Valley Forge draw pencil portraits of them, one, we know, of Washington, at the request of Lafayette, who wanted also to have a painted portrait.
human
I misunderstood you, the general wrote him from Fredericksburg, on September 25, 1778;
gpt
--thus spelled, showing how pronounced by Washington--
human
I thought it was only to obtain the outlines and a few shades of my features, to have some prints struck from.