27481To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 15 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
When Artizans are imported, and criticism is at Work, the inducement is greater to obtain those who are really skilful: for this reason, if Mr. Pinckney should not readily meet with those who are unequivocally such; or, if there is a chance of getting better in France than in England, I think it would be well to instruct him to correspond with Mr. Morris on this subject with a view to obtain...
27482From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 17 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The Attorney General will, I presume, draw the Deed for the Lot for the Mint. The purchase of it, I approve of. If you can aid me in answering the queries of Mr Young, contained in his letter enclosed, I would thank you —I wish to write to him by Mr Pinckney. Is not fish Oil one of the things that will claim the particular attention of Mr Morris? Yrs &ca ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers. For GW’s...
27483To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 17 June 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The Attorney General will, I presume, draw the Deed for the Lot for the Mint. The purchase of it, I approve of. If you can aid me in answering the queries of Mr. Young, contained in his letter enclosed, I would thank you—I wish to write to him by Mr. Pinckney. Is not fish Oil one of the things that will claim the particular attention of Mr. Morris? Yours &ca. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Mr....
27484From George Washington to Arthur Young, 18–21 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th of Jany was received about a fortnight ago. For the Annals which you have had the goodness to send me, I pray you to accept my thanks. No directions having accompanied the second sett, and presuming they were intended for the Agricultural Society in this City, I have, in your name, presented them to that body. As far as it is in my power, I will endeavour to solve the...
27485From George Washington to James Anderson (of Scotland), 20 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure a few days ago to receive your letter of the 28t[h] of September, enclosing a letter from the Earl of Buchan, and accompanied with some seeds of the Sweedish Turnip, or Ruta Baga . At the same time I received from Mr Campbell, a bookseller in New York, six volumes of the Bee, which he informed me were transmitted by your directions. In your letter you mentioned having sent...
27486From George Washington to the Earl of Buchan, 20 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I presume you will, long before this reaches you, have received my letter of the first of May, in answer to the honor of your Lordships favor of the 28th of June, by Mr Robinson. In that letter, I have stated, that the reason of my having so long delayed acknowledging the receipt of it, was a wish that the portrait, which you were pleased to request, should accompany the letter. It was not...
27487From George Washington to Thomas Forrest, 20 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The publication which you had the politness to send me last fall, intituled, “Proceedings relative to Ships tendered for the Service of the United East India Company,” reached my hands some time in April; And lately I have been favored with your voyage from Calcutta &c. These marks of attention are received with gratitude, and merit my best thanks, which I beg you to accept for you[r] very...
27488From George Washington to Richard Peters, 20 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
Excuse my giving you the perusal of a letter that is tinctured with compliment. Pass these over, and solve the queries & doubts of the author; and you will much oblige Yr Obedt Servt ALS , PHi : Dreer Collection. On the cover of this letter, GW wrote: “Expecting Mr Peters might be in Town, this letter was sent to Colo. [Francis] Johnston’s; not finding him there, & the Ship by which the P——...
27489From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 21 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) My dear Sir, Philadelphia June 21st 1792 Since writing to you on the 28th of January, I have received your several favors of the 27th Decr from Paris—4th of Feby, 17th & 21st of March, and 6th & 10th of April from London. I thank you very much for the interesting and important information contained in several of these letters, particularly that of the 4th of Feby. If the last...
27490From George Washington to George Skene Keith, 22 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 14th of January together with the copies of a pamphlet on Weights, Measures and coins which accompanied it. On the 7th of may I acknowledged the receipt of your letter dated July 1st 1791, and its enclosure, which did not get to my hands ’till some time this spring. I have now to request that you will accept my thanks for this further mark of politness and...
27491From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have now before me your letters of the 9th of January & 12th of february, to which it will not be in my power to reply so fully as my inclination would lead me to do if I had no avocations but those of a personal nature. I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the Protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious and alarming heigth mentioned in your letters. Religious...
27492From George Washington to Henry Laurens, 24 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter came to my hands agreeably to its direction; but on opening it I found it was addressed to & intended for you, and that the superscription, directing it to me, was probably a mistake in the writer; I have therefore transmitted it to you, and am, Dear Sir, with very great regard Your most Obedt Servt. Copy, in Tobias Lear’s hand, DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB ,...
27493From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I am grieved to find that Mr Short was, on the 22d of April, without his Comn & Instructions —and that Mr Morris was not then in Paris. AL , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket on the cover of this letter and his Summary Journal of Public Letters ( DLC : Jefferson Papers) record that GW’s note was received on 29 June. For the appointment of William Short and William Carmichael to...
27494From George Washington to Samuel Powel, 29 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I feel much obliged by your kind offer of one of the tubs of Grape Vines from Madeira. If the remaining two contain plants enough to answer your own purposes, I will accept it with thankfulness; but let me entreat you not to disoblige yourself in order to accomodate me. A Vessel will sail in a few days for Alexandria, by which I shall send sundry parcels to Mount Vernon. Mrs Washington unites...
27495To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, [29 June 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
I am grieved to find that Mr. Short was, on the 22d. of April, without his Commission and Instructions—and that Mr. Morris was not then in Paris. RC ( DLC ); undated; addressed: “Secretary of State”; note by TJ at foot of text: “It proved afterwards that the ship carrying the instructions was wrecked”; endorsed by TJ as received 29 June 1792 and so recorded in SJL . Recorded in SJPL .
27496To Alexander Hamilton from George Washington, [30 June 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
For carrying into execution the provisions of the third section of the Act intitled, “An Act making certain appropriations therein specified,” passed the Eight day of May in this present year. I do hereby authorise you the said Secretary of the Treasury in the name and on the credit of the United States to borrow of any body or bodies politic, person or persons whomsoever the sum of Fifty...
27497From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 30 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
For carrying into execution the provisions of the third section of the Act intitled, “An Act making certain appropriations therein specified,[”] passed the Eighth day of May in this present year. I do hereby authorise you the said Secretary of the Treasury in the name and on the credit of the United States to borrow of any body or bodies politic, person or persons whomsoever the sum of Fifty...
27498From George Washington to Henry Lee, 30 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
(Private) Dear Sir, Philadelphia 30th June 1792. Your favor of the 15th came duly to hand, but at a time when I was much engaged with the Secretary of State in dispatching Mr Pinckney to the Court of London—and in considering other business of importance. I shall repeat in this letter what I have declared to you on a former occasion—vizt—that wishing to promote the public weal, & to make...
27499From George Washington to John Francis Mercer, 30 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I little expected that I should have had occasion, at this time (after the pointed assurances you gave me more than three years ago, of discharging what was due to me, fully) to remind you that I have received only Three hundred and eighty pds of the balance; and to ask what I am to expect from you in future. I delayed from day to day while you were in this City (until it was too late) to...
27500From George Washington to John Greenwood, 1 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the first of May and the box which accompanied it came safe, and duly to hand on the eve of my departure for Virginia; which is the reason why I have not acknowledged the Receipt of them sooner. The contents of the latter (with the alterations which were necessarily made) answered very well—and enclosed you have, in Bank notes, twenty dollars, the sum I have usually sent you,...
27501From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 1 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 24th Ulto came duly to hand, and I am glad to find by it that you have had some rains though not as much as has fallen in these parts—and that your Crops are deriving the benefit of them. If the Corn is standing, & alive, I do not, on account of its backwardness, despair of a Crop; if you are able to keep it clean, & the ground well pulverised; which I hope will be the case....
27502From George Washington to Henry Lee, 3 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 20th Ulto was presented to me yesterday by Mr Williams—who as a professional man—may, or may not be for ought I know, a luminary of the first magnitude. But to be frank, and I hope you will not be displeased with me for being so—I am so heartily tired of the attendance which from one cause or another has been given ⟨to⟩ these kind of people, that it is now more than two...
27503From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 4 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th Ulto came to my hands yesterday —and this answer to it will be in Alexandria on Friday; &, more than probable, will reach you before Monday. As you think it will be best to sow Lucern alone, in the Inclosure by the Stable; I am content that it should be so; and will send, or bring some seed, in aid of what you have, to stock it w⟨e⟩ll. The Brick yard Inclosure I would...
27504To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 6 July [1792] (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed will, I think, throw the labouring Oar upon Mr. H—— and is approved of accordingly. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; addressed: “Secrety. of State”; endorsed by TJ as “recd. July 6. 92. on T.J’s lre of July 6. 92 to Mr Hammond.” Recorded in SJPL .
27505From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 7 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Pray send me Mr Hammond’s communications to you on thursday & your letter to him in answer; and let me see you at Eight ’Oclock this Morng. Yrs ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers. Jefferson’s docket indicates that this note was received on Saturday, 7 July 1792. For British minister George Hammond’s letter to Jefferson of Thursday, 5 July, see Jefferson to GW, 5 July, n.1 ; for Jefferson’s response...
27506To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, [7 July 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Pray send me Mr. Hammond’s communications to you on Thursday and your letter to him in answer;—and let me See you at Eight ’O clock this Morning. Yrs. RC ( DLC ); partially dated; addressed: “Mr. Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 7 July 1792. Recorded in SJPL . The President wished to see the British minister’s 5 July letter to TJ and TJ’s 6 July response , both of which dealt with the...
27507From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Pray draught a proper answer to the enclosed, approving of what the Director of the Mint has done, and is about to do; and requesting an estimate of the money which will be wanted to enable him to proceed in the business of Coining agreeably to what he proposes. ALS , DLC : Jefferson Papers. The enclosed letter from David Rittenhouse to GW of this date reads: “Tho’ a long continued state of...
27508From George Washington to David Rittenhouse, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Having had under consideration the letter of the Director of the mint of this day’s date, I hereby declare my approbation of the purchase he has made of the house and lot for the mint. of the employment of mr Voight as Coiner, of the procuring fifteen tons of copper, & proceeding to coin the cents and half cents of copper & dismes & half dismes of silver: and I leave to his discretion to have...
27509From George Washington to David Stuart, 9 July 1792 (Washington Papers)
Although I did not acknowledge the receipt of the letter you wrote to me some time ago respecting Bowl[e]s, I was not unmindful of the contents: but upon consulting some Professional Gentlemen I was informed that his being brother to the noted Bowls was not, without some overt act of his own, sufft to lay hold of him. If nothing more happens than I am aware of at present, I shall leave this...
27510To Thomas Jefferson from George Washington, 9 July 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Pray draught a proper answer to the enclosed , approving of what the Director of the Mint has done, and is about to do; and requesting an estimate of the money which will be wanted to enable him to proceed in the business of Coining agreeably to what he proposes. RC ( DLC ); addressed: “Secretary of State”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 July 1792. Recorded in SJPL . The enclosed , Rittenhouse...