To George Washington from Myles Cooper, 20 September 1773

From Myles Cooper

King’s Coll: New York, 20th Sepr 1773.

Dr Cooper presents his most respectful Comps. to Coll Washington; & returns him his Son in Law, without any vices that he knows of, and with many Virtues, wherewith he is perfectly acquainted.

His Assiduity hath been equal to his Rectitude of principle; and it is hoped his Improvements in Learning have not been inferior to either.1

AL, DLC:GW.

1. John Parke Custis probably delivered Cooper’s testimonial to GW at Annapolis where GW went on 26 September. Custis and GW traveled to Mount Vernon on 2 October. See Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 3:205, 208. GW assumed that Custis had returned from King’s College for a vacation “of four or five Weeks,” but by the middle of December GW was forced to concede to Cooper that Custis had secured GW’s reluctant consent not to return to college so that he could marry Eleanor Calvert (Custis to GW, 5 July; GW to Cooper, 15 Dec.).

Index Entries

You Are Looking At

Source Project: Washington Papers
Title: To George Washington from Myles Cooper, 20 September 1773
Author: Cooper, Myles
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 20 September 1773

Reference

Cite as: “To George Washington from Myles Cooper, 20 September 1773,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-09-02-0250. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 325–326.]

More between these correspondents