From George Washington to Jane Dennison Fairfax, 23 February 1799

To Jane Dennison Fairfax

Mount Vernon 23d Feb. 1799

General and Mrs Washington present their Compliments to Mrs Fairfax and family and request the favour of their Company at dinner with the newly married couple on Wednesday next.1

An answer is requested.

AL, ViHi.

1. According to GW’s diary two couples dined at Mount Vernon on Wednesday, 27 Feb., but not Mrs. Fairfax, whose husband, Bryan Fairfax, was in England (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:336). The Washingtons entertained on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights, 25, 26, and 27 Feb.(ibid.). See also GW to Andrew, Catherine, and William Ramsay, this date.

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Title: From George Washington to Jane Dennison Fairfax, 23 February 1799
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Fairfax, Jane Dennison
Date: 23 February 1799

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Jane Dennison Fairfax, 23 February 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-03-02-0294. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 16 September 1798 – 19 April 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot and Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 394.]

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