1To George Washington from Thomas Lang, 20 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 20 July 1791. Presents a copy of An Essay on Commerce and Luxury which he has published this day. ALS , DLC:GW . A copy of the enclosed work, Of Commerce and Luxury (Philadelphia, 1791), was bound with miscellaneous pamphlets in the Mount Vernon library before GW’s death ( Griffin, Boston Athenæum Washington Collection, Appleton P. C. Griffin, comp. A Catalogue of the Washington...