21To George Washington from John Parke, 25 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
185–86). Parke is now best known for the book of poetry he published anonymously in 1786,
22Charles Willson Peale to Thomas Jefferson, 3 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
books; of poetry [index entry]
23To George Washington from John Searson, 13 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
...Meeting with financial misfortunes during the Revolutionary War, he returned to Ireland, spent about fifteen years as schoolmaster at Colerain, issued poems in 1794 and 1795, and then returned to the United States. Searson subsequently issued three more books of poetry, dedicating the latter two volumes to GW:
24To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Story, 27 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
; & should have sent it sooner, had it been in my power. He has wrote a book of poetry, which art he must have derived from his mother, who has a good taste that way, & she from her great grandmother,