1[Diary entry: 17 February 1796] (Washington Papers)
17. Clear, & remarkably fine with the Wind Southerly.
2To 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...
3From George Washington to Harriot Washington, 17 February 1796 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Harriot Washington, 17 Feb. 1796 . On 26 Feb., Harriot Washington wrote GW: “I now take up my pen to answer my dear and Honord Uncle’s letter of February 17th.”
4To James Madison from Joseph Jones, 17 February 1796 (Madison Papers)
I was not only astonished but concerned to see in what manner the resolutions of the Virginia Ass: was treated by the Mass. Legislature as well as some others but by others with more decency —these are strange and unaccountable things to me but I suppose are well warranted in the opinion of others better informed. I had supposed there was nothing unconstitutional in a state legislature...