Daniel Carroll Brent, to whom TJ had written on 6 Mch. on Scott’s behalf, sought information from his friend Alexander Spotswood, who enclosed material relevant to Scott’s proposed biography of general washington and also offered to share letters his grandfather had written while serving as lieutenant governor of Virginia. Spotswood was married to George Washington’s niece Elizabeth Washington (Alexander Spotswood to Daniel Carroll Brent, 16 Mch., in MHi, endorsed by TJ; Washington, Papers, Pres. Ser. description begins W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Philander D. Chase, Theodore J. Crackel, Edward C. Lengel, and others, eds., The Papers of George Washington, Charlottesville, 1983- , 57 vols., Confed. Ser., 1992–97, 6 vols., Pres. Ser., 1987- , 16 vols., Ret. Ser., 1998–99, 4 vols., Rev. War Ser., 1985- , 21 vols. description ends , 15:389n).