1[Diary entry: 14 May 1791] (Washington Papers)
Saturday 14th. A little after 6 Oclock, in Company with Genl. McIntosh Genl. Wayne the Mayor and many others (principal Gentlemen of the City) I visited the City, and the attack & defence of it in the year 1779, under the combined forces of France and the United States, commanded by the Count de Estaing & Genl. Lincoln. To form an opinion of the attack at this distance of time, and the change...
2To George Washington from the Ebenezer, Ga., German Congregation, 14 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
Permittas, quaeso, Illustrissime Washington! ut devoti piique animi sensa TIBI declarem, cui contigerit insignis illa felicitas, TE Savannae adeundi, virum, tot tantisque factis illustrem. Profecto admiratus sum TUAM humanitatem et indulgentiam, qua me hominem ignotum excepisti, qui non ausus essem ad TE accedere nisi ab amico optimo certior factus essem, tristem abs TE discedere neminem....
3From George Washington to the Georgia Masons, 14 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I am much obliged by your congratulations on my arrival in this city—and I am highly indebted to your favorable opinions. Every circumstance concurs to render my stay in Savannah agreeable, and it is cause of regret to me that it must be so short. My best wishes are offered for the welfare of the fraternity, and for your particular happiness. DS , DSC ; LB , DLC:GW . The Grand Lodge of Georgia...
4From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 14 May 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have not, I believe, written to you since I left Richmond. At Charleston, towards the last of my stay there, I received your letters of the 10th & 15th of Apl but the continual hurry into which I was thrown by entertainments—visits—and ceremonies of one kind or another, scarcely allowed me a moment that I could call my own—nor is the case much otherwise here. No letters North of Virginia...
5From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 14 May 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Tobias Lear, 14 May 1791. On 3 June 1791 Lear wrote to David Humphreys: “I had a letter a few days ago from the President dated Savannah May 14th” ( PPRF ).
6From Thomas Jefferson to James Lackington, 14 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
My removal from Paris to this place has probably been the cause of the intermission in my recieving your half yearly catalogues as usual. I will beg the favor of you to resume the practice of sending them to me, changing the former address to that of ‘Thomas Jefferson Secretary of state Philadelphia, to the care of Messrs. Donald and Burton merchts. London.’ On sending them to Messrs. Donald...
7To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyons, 14 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received, a few weeks past, a letter from Dr. Currie of Philadelphia, informing me of his preparing for the press, a history of the diseases which occur in the different parts of America and which will be printed next month. As the design is laudable, and the work may be useful, tho’ he is quite unknown to me, I have endeavoured to comply with his request for my assistance, by giving him...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your favor by Capt. Heath, and notice what is said therein on the subject of the Marquee. Capt. Singleton has been certainly misinformed as to the delivery of it at Monticello. You know it was in the summer of 1782. I was at home the whole of that summer. My situation at that time enables me to say with certainty that I was not from home one day from the time the Marquee was...
9From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 14 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof Mr. Russell proposing to visit Paris, I take the liberty of introducing him to your notice. His father is the most eminent merchant in Boston, I might perhaps have said in the United states: his brother I believe you knew in France. Tho less acquainted with himself I am authorised to assure you he will do justice to any marks of attention you will be so good as to shew him,...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Sir John Sinclair, 14 May 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Whitehall, 14 May 1791. He sends his best compliments, encloses some papers, and asks their acceptance by TJ. As to the Corn Laws, “they will not probably agree,” but he sincerely wishes for some commercial arrangement between the two countries. RC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ as received 16 July 1791 and so recorded in SJL . TJ shared the papers enclosed in this and a previous letter (25 Dec....