From George Washington to Samuel Powel, 4 May 1793
To Samuel Powel
[Philadelphia, 4 May 1793]1
Dear Sir,
By one of the late ships from London, I have received from Mr Arthur Young two sets of his Annals—numbered from 98 to 108 inclusively.2
Although no direction is given concerning them, I take it for granted that one set is intended, as usual, for the Agricultural Society of this City, and to you, as President thereof, I send them accordingly.3 With estem & regard I am—Dear Sir Your Obedt Servt
Go: Washington
ALS, ViMtvL; ADfS, PPRF; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Both the draft and letter-book copy indicate that this letter was written at Philadelphia on 4 May 1793.
2. This set of Young’s Annals of Agriculture may have been included in a parcel from Young that arrived in mid-April aboard the William Penn (Young to GW, 17 Jan.; Thomas Pinckney to Thomas Jefferson, 10 Feb. 1793, 25:166–67; 110).
3. For Young’s earlier requests that GW forward volumes of his Annals to the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, of which Powel was president, see Young to GW, 1 Feb. 1787, 25 Jan. 1791. GW’s library contained copies of the Annals at the time of his death ( 230–31).