1To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 17 November 1798 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 17 Nov. 1798. On 17 Nov. GW wrote Mrs. Powel : “I thank you for the information contained in your note of this date.”
2To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 3 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have the Pleasure to send the Book of Prints that you were so obliging as to accept from your Friend. I have also taken the liberty to add a few that I admire on a presumption that the Mind capable of tracing with Pleasure the military Progress of the Hero whose Battles they delineate will also have the associate Taste and admire fine representations of the Work of God in the human Form. As...
3To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 7 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
The amount of the Articles purchased you will find to be Seventy Four dols. & a half. I must request the Favour of you to deliver the enclosed Letter to Mrs Law. My Heart is so sincerely afflicted and my Idea’s so confused that I can only express my predominant Wish—that God may take you into his holy keeping and preserve you safe both in Traveling and under all Circumstances, and that you may...