1From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 29 July 1787 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 22d is before me. If the outer doors of the New room are adapted to receive Mortice locks, it will make the room more uniform; and I can get them here of good quality from Seven Inches downwards—I shall decline sending any kind ’till I hear from you again thinking it best that the whole should be of this kind if any are. Perceiving you have little chance of sowing much Wheat...