From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 13 April 1786

To Bushrod Washington

Mount Vernon April 13th 1786

Dear Bushrod,

If royal gift will administer, he shall be at the Service of your Mares, but at present he seems too full of royalty, to have any thing to do with a plebean race. perhaps his stomach may come to him—if not, I shall wish he had never come from his most Catholic Majesty’s Stables.

Your Papa has not been here, yet. I am just come in from a ride—the Dinner bell rings—and your Man says he must go oflf after it1—so offer me affectionately to all—and believe me to be sincerly Yrs

Go: Washington

ALS, DLC: John Davis Batchelder Autograph Collection.

1. GW “Rid to Muddy hole and river Plantations” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 4:310). John Augustine Washington arrived at Mount Vernon from Berkeley County on 9 May for a two-day visit (ibid., 327–28).

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Title: From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 13 April 1786
Author: Washington, George
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Date: 13 April 1786

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 13 April 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-04-02-0020. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 4, 2 April 1786 – 31 January 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 18.]

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