1From George Washington to William Goddard, 12 March 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to William Goddard, 12 Mar. 1787. In item E 667, the Collector of June 1944 cites this quotation from a letter that GW wrote to Goddard: “You will please to insert the enclosed Advertisement in your paper and continue it three weeks.”
2From George Washington to William Goddard, 11 June 1785 (Washington Papers)
On the 8th inst: I received the favor of your letter of the 30th of May: In answer to it I can only say, that your own good judgement must direct you in the publication of the manuscript papers of Genl Lee—I can have no request to make concerning the work. I never had a difference with that Gentleman but on public ground, & my conduct towards him upon this occasion, was such only, as I...
3Tobias Lear to William Goddard & James Angell, 6 March 1790 (Washington Papers)
You will be pleased to insert the enclosed advertisement in your paper for six weeks successively and charge the same in your annual account with the President of the United States—which account you will be good enough to present whenever it becomes due. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant LB , DLC:GW . William Goddard and James Angell (d. 1797) were the publishers of the Maryland...