1To George Washington from Washington Academy Trustees, 12 April 1798 (Washington Papers)
It was not earlier than September 1797 that we were officially informed of your liberal donation to Liberty Hall Academy. Permit us as its immediate Guardians to perform the pleasing duty of expressing those sentiments of gratitude which so generous an act naturally inspires. We have long been sensible of the inconveniences to which literary institutions are necessarily subjected whilst...