1. Virginia treasurer Jaquelin Ambler reported in the enclosed letter to Jefferson of 10 Dec. the payment that morning of $10,000 “in part of the second instalment of the Monies voted by our Assembly towards the public Buildings at the Seat of Government of the United States: the residue will be paid, as soon as the state of our Treasury will enable me” (Jefferson Papers, description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends 24:715). For background on Virginia’s financial contribution to the new federal capital, see Jefferson to GW, 12 Nov. 1792 (first letter), and note 2, and GW to Ambler, 13 Nov., and notes.

2. GW is referring to a map of the Federal City recently completed by Philadelphia engravers James Thackara and John Vallance. For background on attempts to produce a suitable engraving of the new capital, see D.C. Commissioners to GW, 5 Oct. 1792, n.2. Following GW’s suggestion, Jefferson wrote Thomas Pinckney, the U.S. minister to Great Britain, on 30 Dec. that he would send him “two dozen plans of the city of Washington in the Federal territory, which you are desired to display, not for sale but for public inspection, wherever they may be most seen by those descriptions of people worthy and likely to be attracted to it, dividing the plans among the cities of London and Edinburgh chiefly, but sending some also to Glasgow, Bristol Dublin &c.” (ibid., 803).