From George Washington to the Cabinet, 10 June 1794

To the Cabinet

Philadelphia June 10th 1794.

It is my wish to set off for Mount Vernon on Monday next.1 With some inconvenience to myself, it might be delayed until Wednesday; beyond which the purposes of my journey would, in a great measure, be defeated by further delay. I therefore desire that everything which requires my attention in your Department previous to my absence, may be laid before me with as much promptitude as the case will admit of.

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LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.

1. The next Monday was 16 June. GW set off for Mount Vernon at 8 A.M. on 17 June (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 310).

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Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: From George Washington to the Cabinet, 10 June 1794
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Cabinet
Date: 10 June 1794

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the Cabinet, 10 June 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-16-02-0171. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 16, 1 May–30 September 1794, ed. David R. Hoth and Carol S. Ebel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, pp. 208–209.]

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