1[Diary entry: 5 October 1785] (Washington Papers)
Wednesday 5. Thermometer at 60 in the Morng. at Noon and 68 at Night. Brisk wind from the Southward all day. Weather clear. Stripped the Shingles of the South side of the Pediment of the West front of the House, in expectation of Mr. Sanders’s coming to direct the Shingling of it, but he never appeared. Colo. Ramsay introducing a Mr. McComb, & a Mr. Lowry; dined here, & went away afterwards....
2From George Washington to Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 5 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
To find that the letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 30th of March last, in acknowledgement of the Poem you had the goodness to send me through the hands of Mr Vogels, has never reached you, gives me pain. I now enclose a copy of it, presuming that the original must have miscarried from my having addressed it to the care of that Gentleman at Philadelphia when, possibly, he...