1From George Washington to David Stuart, 22 January 1798 (Washington Papers)
Washington leaves this today, on a visit to Hope Park; which will afford you an opportunity to examine the progress he has made in the studies he was directed to pursue. I can, and I believe do, keep him in his room a certain portion of the 24 hours, but it will be impossible for me to make him attend to his Books if inclination, on his part, is wanting: nor while I am out, if he chuses to be...
2From George Washington to David Stuart, 26 February 1798 (Washington Papers)
When you were here last, I informed you, that from the reputation which the College at Annapolis had, I was most inclined under every view I could take of the case, to send Washington to that Seminary; and, accordingly, had requested Mr George Calvert (who informed me that he was going to that City) to converse with the President of the College on this subject, & make other enquiries, and to...
3From George Washington to David Stuart, 13 August 1798 (Washington Papers)
If you, or Mrs Stuart could, by indirect means, discover the State of Washington Custiss Mind, it would be to be wished. He appears to me to be moped & Stupid. says nothing—and is always in some hole or corner excluded from Company. Before he left Annapolis, he wrote to me desiring to know whether he was to return there, or not, that he might pack up accordingly—I answered, that I was...
4From George Washington to David Stuart, 30 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
Company, ever since my return home, has prevented my mentioning a matter before, which will be the subject of this letter now. When the applications for Military appointments come to be examined at Philadelphia, it was pleasing to find among them, so many Gentlemen of family, fortune & high expectations, soliciting Commissions; & not in the high grades. This, and a thorough conviction that it...
5From George Washington to David Stuart, 3 January 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to David Stuart, 3 Jan. 1799. On 4 Jan. GW wrote Stuart and referred to “a letter I wrote to you yesterday.”
6From George Washington to David Stuart, 4 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of this date is just received; and the cause why I did not hear from you by the return of my Carriage, was conjectured, as you will perceive by a letter I wrote to you yesterday (covering one from Mrs Washington to Nelly) and sent to the Post Office in Alexandria for conveyance by the Mail. I do not, myself believe, that there will be a call of the augmented Troops to the Field of...