1To George Washington from Joseph Clark, 5 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
When I had the honor of an interview with you at Mount Vernon your obliging attention in permitting me to lay before you a Scheme for a new City, has induced me to take the liberty of transmitting my Ideas on that Subject somewhat more at Large, and on a scale of calculation less extensive respecting the profile to be raised. I have lately rode over part of the Land on the banks of the...
2From George Washington to George Steptoe Washington, 5 December 1790 (Washington Papers)
Agreeably to the promise which I gave to you in Virginia, I have made the necessary enquiries respecting the course of studies and expences, which would enable you and your Brother Lawrence to finish your education at the college in this place, provided you are Masters of those books and studies, which you informed me you had passed through. The enclosed account of studies and expences, which...
3To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Russell, 5 December 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Boston, 5 Dec. 1790 . In response to Remsen’s inquiry he informs TJ that the laws of the second session printed by him [in the Massachusetts Centinel , which on 16 June 1790 became the Columbian Centinel ] amounted to 372 squares. “The square, in Typographical language, is 20 lines of Long-Primer matter-the line being 20 ms long—and in that proportion of shorter or longer lines, larger or...