1To George Washington from Thomas Blackburn, 20 December 1784 (Washington Papers)
Your Favor of Yesterday’s Date came to Hand this Morning. I intended to have done myself the Honor to have waited on You Today, to confer with You on the Subject of the Dispatches I received by Yesterday’s Express; but the Intervention of your Letter, & the Badness of the Weather, will excuse me. I am sorry to inform You, that it is not in my power to attend the Meeting of the Commrs on the...