1To George Washington from Samuel Mickle Fox, 2 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday honor’d with your letter of the 26th Ult. As no information has been rec’d at Bank of any intention on the part of Mr Shreve or of the representatives of Col. Ritchie to make the payments due to you I sent the enclosure for the Honble Mr Ross to the Post office on the same day. Hearing accidentally that Mrs Ritchie was in town I called upon the Gentleman at whose house she...
2To George Washington from Samuel Mickle Fox, 20 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 14 Inst. was received in due time, but as it was not in my power to transmit you a draft upon either the Bank of Alexandria or Columbia, I have been under the necessity of delaying a compliance with your directions untill the present opportunity occurred—I now enclose fifteen hundred dollars in Southern notes & shall confide this letter to Mr Charles Jolly, one of the...