Monday 10th. A severe illness with which I was seized the 10th. of this Month and which left me in a convalescent state for several weeks after the violence of it had passed; & little inclination to do more than what duty to the public required at my hands occasioned the suspension of this Diary.
[Diary entry: 10 May 1790]
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- Washington, George
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- 10 May 1790
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- Month: [May 1790]
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- “[Diary entry: 10 May 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0001-0005-0010. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 77.]