3551From George Washington to Anne Louise DuBarry, 15 May 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : to Anne Louise DuBarry, 15 May 1796. In DuBarry’s letter to GW of 28 July, she referred to “the Letter you honourd me with dated the 15th of may” (see GW to George Lewis, 28 April , n.2).
3552From George Washington to Francis II (Holy Roman Emperor), 15 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
It will readily occur to your Majesty, that occasions may sometimes exist, on which official considerations would constrain the Chief of a Nation to be silent and passive, in relation even to objects which affect his sensibility, and claim his interposition, as a man. Finding myself precisely in this situation at present, I take the liberty of writing this private letter to Your Majesty; being...
3553From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 15 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
On this day week, I wrote you a letter on the subject of the information received from G—— M——, and put it with some other Papers respecting the case of Mr De la Fayette, under cover to Mr Jay: to whom also I had occasion to write. But in my hurry (making up the dispatches for the Post Office next morning) I forgot to give it a Superscription; of course it had to return from N: York for one, &...
3554Enclosure: GW’s Draft for a Farewell Address, May 1796 (Washington Papers)
The quotation in this address, was composed, and intended to have been published, in the year 1792; in time to have announced to the Electors of the President & Vice President of the United States the determination of the former previous to the sd Election but the solicitude of my confidential friends, added to the peculiar situation of our foreign affairs at that epoch induced me to suspend...
3555From George Washington to William Pearce, 15 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 8th, with the Reports, are at hand; and I am glad you sowed all the Peas (except the small reserve mentioned in your letter) and the Chiccory; as I think it better than withholding them, until next Seed time. I am glad also that you have got your flour off hand (as warm weather and accidents were against keeping it longer) altho’ I am convinced that if I had held it up a...
3556To George Washington from William Pearce, 15 May 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from William Pearce, 15 May 1796. GW wrote Pearce on 22 May : “Your letter of the 15th instt … came duly to hand.”
3557[Diary entry: 14 May 1796] (Washington Papers)
14. Wind at So. Et. and lowering more or less all day.
3558To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 14 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
Our Letter of Yesterday, covering the power of attorney to Messrs Willink, will shew you, that we are busily engaged in endeavoring to draw some good effects from the Loan Bill which has cost us so much time & trouble—We beg leave to submit to your consideration, the enclosed advertisement, which, when approved by you, we wish to appear in the public prints at Boston, New York and Phila., as...
3559To George Washington from John Sinclair, 14 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
In addition to the paper respecting Manures which I had the honor of forwarding to your Excellency last year, I now beg leave to Subjoin a further Memoir on the Same interesting Subject. The Board of Agriculture will be highly obliged to your Excellency, if you will please at your leisure to cast an Eye over it, and would recommend it to the attention of your intelligent friends conversant in...
3560To George Washington from Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 14 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury has the honour most respectfully to submit to the President of the United States, certain documents in respect to Sylvanus Walker, Inspector of the revenue for the third survey of the District of South Carolina; by which it appears, 1st. That the said Inspector wants the capacity so necessary to insure a due and correct discharge of the duties attached to his...