1To George Washington from Robert Lewis, 17 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
I have delayed answering your last letter until I had made another collection and examined more attentively into the exact situation of your property over the ridge and in this County—I felecitate myself extremely when I inform you that my success in the collection business has been far more favorable than my most sanguin expectations cou’d have supposed—Out of fifty or sixty tenants not more...