1To George Washington from William McNamara, 5 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
I would have conformed to my promise of troubling you no more, were I not actuated by the sincerest regret for having undesignedly offended your Excellancy, by my last letter. I was far from imagining, when I wrote it, that it would have been taken as an insult: tho its being wrote in the anguish of disappointment, arrayed it in attire, which it was never intended it should ware; even then, it...