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To George Washington from Pierre L’Enfant, 22 December 1791 [letter not found]

Letter not found: from Pierre L’Enfant, c.22 Dec. 1791. GW wrote to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia on 27 Dec.: “I find by a letter which I have just received from Majr L’Enfant that the house of Notley Young Esqr. has (contrary to expectation) fallen into a principal Street.”1

1. No such letter to GW has been found, but Pierre L’Enfant wrote similarly to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia on 22 Dec. 1791 (see Commissioners to GW, 8 Jan. 1792).

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    To George Washington from Pierre L’Enfant, 22 December 1791 [letter not found]
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    L’Enfant, Pierre Charles
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    Washington, George
    Date
    22 December 1791

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    “To George Washington from Pierre L’Enfant, 22 December 1791 [letter not found],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-09-02-0192. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 23 September 1791 – 29 February 1792, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, p. 303.]

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