1[Diary entry: 18 November 1785] (Washington Papers)
Friday 18th. Thermometer at 49 in the Morning—54 at Noon and 50 at Night. Morning clear & serene—a white Frost and ground froze—Ice an eighth of an Inch thick. Wind at No. Wt. & pretty fresh untill the afternoon when it was almost calm. Began to take up a number of small Pines to replace the dead ones in my wilderness. Got them with much dirt about the Roots. Took an Account of the Horses,...
2From George Washington to Lamar, Hill, Bisset, & Company, 18 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have a copy of my last—Since which I have been honored with your favor of the 22d of Augt—This Letter will be conveyed to you by —— in the ——, which will return immediately to this river & afford a safe & good conveyance for the Wine ordered by Mr Hill—the cost of wch as soon as I am advised of it shall be paid by a Bill on London. I am Gentn &c. LB , DLC:GW . For the...
3From George Washington to John Marsden Pintard, 18 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 19th of August from Madeira, accompanied by a box of Citron, Lemons & Onions; for which I pray you to accept my grateful thanks. If a favourable opportunity should offer directly to this river, at a proper season of the year, you would encrease the obligation you have already laid me under, by sending me a few slips of the vines of your best...
4From George Washington to John Rumney, Jr., 18 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
Since my last, I have been favored with your Letter of the 3d of July, accompanied by patterns of the Irish flag; but as the prices were not annexed, I could form no judgment, nor make any choice from a comparison thereof with those of the former: nor indeed is it now essential, as the one I had fixed upon in my last, is cheaper I presume than either of the present samples wou’d be, & will...
5From George Washington to Charles Vaughan, 18 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your favor of the 25th of Septr by Mr Corbett. I am at a loss to express my sense of the great attention of Mr Vaughan (your good father) to me, or of the obliging manner in which you have executed his request. The Puncheon of rum is safe arrived. & I pray you to receive my acknowledgments of, and to present my thanks for it, to your generous Parent. I wish I...