1To George Washington from Fenwick, 17 November 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 17 Nov. 1789. The dealer’s catalog states that this letter deals with matters “regarding the purchase of champagne, claret, etc.” LS , sold by Hanzel Galleries, item 50, 23–24 Sept. 1973.
2To George Washington from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 5 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
Bordeaux [France] 5 December 1789. The dealer’s catalog description of this document notes that it deals with GW’s order for wine which included twenty-six bottles of claret and twelve dozen “vins de grave. We have taken much pains to procure this Wine and are well persuaded it is the best to be had. But we fear it (the claret particularly) may not be found fit for drinking immediately though...
3To George Washington from Fenwick, 7 December 1789 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 7 Dec. 1789. The dealer’s catalog description of this document states that it concerns “the purchase of champagne, claret, etc.” Sold by Hanzel Galleries, September 1973, item no. 50. See Fenwick, Mason, & Company to GW, 5 Dec. 1789 . The manuscript dealer may have misread the date on this document.
4To George Washington from Fenwick, Mason, & Company, 9 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
On 24 April last we had the honour to inform you that the draft you forwarded us on Jauge & Dupuy of this City for 50 Dollars, had not been paid, since which we have been without any of your Favours. Tis only since three or four weeks that we have had the mortification to hear that the Packet-Boat on which your wine was shipped last Winter, had again been distressed & put into Brest very much...
5To George Washington from Fenwick, 1 April 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Fenwick, Mason, & Co., 1 April 1791. On 7 July Tobias Lear referred Fenwick, Mason, & Co. to the firm’s letters to GW “of the 9th of July and 10th of August 1790, and of the 1st of April 1791.”