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To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 June 1793

From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia

June 24th 1793

Sr

We beg leave to refer you to Mr Blodget on the subject of the National University to which in general we have the most friendly disposition, and the site painted out by him we entirely approve if it can be had on the generous terms proposed, on its meeting your approbation we will do every thing in our power in favour of the important institution.1 We are &ca

Th. Johnson

Dd Stuart

Danl Carroll

LB, DNA: RG 42, Records of the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, Letters Sent, 1791–1802.

1. On GW’s long-standing desire to promote the establishment of a national university, see his address to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 8 Jan. 1790, and his Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799, and note 6 (Papers, Retirement Series description begins W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series. 4 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1998–99. description ends , 4:483, 496). On Samuel Blodget, Jr.’s promotion of a national university and the failure to establish such an institution, see Arnebeck, Through a Fiery Trial description begins Bob Arnebeck. Through a Fiery Trial: Building Washington, 1790–1800. Lanham, Md., and London, 1991. description ends , 163, 202–3, 272, 393, 399, 411.

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    To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 June 1793
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    Johnson, Thomas
    Stuart, David
    Carroll, Daniel
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    Washington, George
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    24 June 1793

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    “To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 June 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-13-02-0099. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 13, 1 June–31 August 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 132.]