1From George Washington to Christian Theodor Sigismund von Molitor and Georg Hermann Vulteius, 21 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th Inst, setting forth your distressed condition, and requesting some pecuniary assistance, has been put into my hands. The distresses of my fellow creatures are never known to me without giving pain, to whatever nation or Country they belong; and happy should I be could I releive the wants & necessities of every one—but, Gentlemen, that is out of my power—and there are...