1From Benjamin Franklin to Richard Woodward, 10 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft ): American Philosophical Society Desirous of being reviv’d in your Memory, I take this Opportunity by my good Friend Mrs. Blacker, of sending you a printed Piece, and a Manuscript, both on a Subject you and I frequently convers’d upon, with similar Sentiments, when I had the Pleasure of seeing you in Dublin. I have since had the Satisfaction to learn that a Disposition to abolish...
2[Diary entry: 10 April 1773] (Washington Papers)
10. At home all day alone. Mr. Custis came in the afternoon. John Parke Custis was probably returning from the Calvert home of Mount Airy with Benedict Calvert’s reply (8 April 1773, DLC:GW ) to GW’s letter (3 April 1773, DLC:GW ) regarding Custis’s betrothal to Calvert’s daughter Nelly. Calvert agreed with GW that the match, which met with his approval, should be postponed while Custis...
3[Diary entry: 10 April 1773] (Washington Papers)
10th. Just such a day as the preceeding one. What little Wind there is coming from the same Quarter.