1To George Washington from Francis Mentges, 26 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
It is with the greatest mortification I am to acquaint your Excellency of the accident happnd on the Night of the 22 instant, by a fire brocke out at the Palace, where the General Hospital was Keept, and the whole Building was consumed, lukely, the sick & wounded were saved—but One—who perished by the flames—it is generaly thought the fire was laid in to the lower Rooms, where no sick were, by...