1From George Washington to Mildred Thornton Washington, 18 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 13th instt came duly to hand. The contents gave me great pain, on two accounts; first, to find the situation of my brothers affairs in so deplorable a State; and next, that it is so little in my power to afford you effectual relief. My situation, is very little understood by most people. Whatever may be my property, the income of it, is inadequate to my expences: not from...
2To George Washington from Mildred Thornton Washington, 13 October 1798 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Mildred Thornton Washington, 13 Oct. 1798. On 18 Oct. GW wrote Mildred Washington : “Your favour of the 13th instt came duly to hand.”