1From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 15 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
I am much obliged to you for the two curiousities you were pleased to transmit, as well as for your distinct and ingenious account of them. The facts have been so clearly stated by you, as I believe, to render a farther elucidation or confirmation unnec[e]ssary. It is greatly to be regretted, that we have not in America some general Museum or Cabinet for receiving all the rare Phenomena and...
2From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 21 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday favored with the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, through the medium of my Nephew to whom it had been committed: and I must be dispensed with for only giving the general reply, which I have lately found it necessary to give on several similar occasions. For since it has been expected that I should be called to the chair of government, many applications have been made...
3From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 17 May 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favored with your letter of the 11th instt. I thank you for bringing the negotiation with Mr Peter to a close, & for effectuating the transfer of the remaining lots in square No. ⟨21⟩ to me agreeably thereto. Mr Lear will make the first payment therfor, according to contract. I am much obliged by your kind enquiry into the value of the land I hold on Difficult run, although...
4From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 20 December 1795 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Gustavus Scott, 20 Dec. 1795 . Scott wrote GW on 23 Dec.: “I had the Honor of your favor of the 20th.”
5From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 25 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 20th inst: came to hand yesterday. I have neither received, nor heard of an Address from the Proprietors of the Federal City. Nor do I know any more of Mr Law’s sentiments relative to the concerns of it, than I do of Tippo Saib’s. The ideas conveyed in my last to the Commissioners (dated the 22d) are not of recent adoption. They are as old as the change which took place in...
6From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 4 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
If the public dispatches which I receive, & am obliged to answer by every Post, would permit; I would go more into detail, & explanation of the subject of your last (seperate) letter, than it is possible for me to do at present. I will not, however, let it pass without some further expression of my ideas; & the understanding I always had of your entrance into the Office you now hold, in the...
7From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 26 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 15th instt was not received until the 22d. To what the delay is to be ascribed, I know not. The voice of Maryland, as expressed by its legislature, in the Resolutions which you enclosed, is flattering indeed, as it respects myself, personally; and highly pleasing as it relates to their federal sentiments—I thank you for sendg them. From what you have said of the disposition...
8From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 22 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
I should not have taken the liberty of giving you the trouble wch the enclosures must occasion, but for the request of Genl Lee who left this yesterday and is implicated in the business to which they relate. Messrs Reed & Fords obligation, paid me by Genl Lee to discharge in part a debt he owed me, the letter of the latter with Mr Lingans note (all of which are enclosed) will be sufficient I...
9GW to Gustavus Scott, 28 April 1797 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: GW to Gustavus Scott, 28 April 1797. On 29 April Scott wrote “I had the Honor of your favor of the 28th.”
10From George Washington to Gustavus Scott, 12 June 1797 (Washington Papers)
Encouraged by your ⟨former⟩ kindness, I take the liberty of sen⟨ding⟩ another letter of Messrs Reed a⟨nd Ford⟩ on the subject of the Share⟨s, due from them⟩ to me, in the Bank of Co⟨lumbia; and to re⟩quest the favour of you to ⟨enquire of Mr⟩ Smith, or at the said Bank, ⟨if any effici⟩ent measures are in train ⟨for trans⟩fering the remaining twenty n⟨ine shares⟩ to me, agreeably to their...