To George Washington from the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 24 June 1793
From the Commissioners for the District of Columbia
June 24th 1793
Sr
We beg leave to refer you to Mr Blodget on the subject of the National University to which in general we have the most friendly disposition, and the site painted out by him we entirely approve if it can be had on the generous terms proposed, on its meeting your approbation we will do every thing in our power in favour of the important institution.1 We are &ca
Th. Johnson
Dd Stuart
Danl Carroll
LB, DNA: RG 42, Records of the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, Letters Sent, 1791–1802.
1. On GW’s long-standing desire to promote the establishment of a national university, see his address to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 8 Jan. 1790, and his Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799, and note 6 ( , 4:483, 496). On Samuel Blodget, Jr.’s promotion of a national university and the failure to establish such an institution, see , 163, 202–3, 272, 393, 399, 411.