41From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 13–14 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th instant with the several reports therein, came duly to hand; & to such parts as require it, I shall reply. I never had it in contemplation to with-draw the hands from the River, or any other Plantation to aid at the Mansion house, if their work should be required at home: therefore I find no difficulty in releasing the River force from this Service, if there is really...
42From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 28 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
By yesterdays Post I received a letter from you without date, but suppose from the contents it must have left Mount Vernon on Wednesday last. The letter to Mrs Fanny Washington must be sent to me, because the purpose of it cannot be answered by sending it to her below. The Mansion house surplus hands, may be disposed of as you shall, upon a full view of all circumstances, conceive best; and...
43From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 26 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Philadelphia, 26 Mar. 1793. Writes that “Since writing to you yesterday I have bought a handsome . . . Enclosed you have the draught of an Advertisment which you may put into the Alexandria & Wincester. I have sent one to Fredericksburg—& shall lodge others as I go, at Baltimore, Annapolis, & George Town.” AL (fragment), NN : Washington Collection; ALS (fragment), owned (1973) by Mrs. Charles...
44From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 16 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
My letter, of yesterdays date, was closed, and sent to the Post Office, before it occurred to me, to enquire, whether you have taken advantage of the present frost, to store the House with Ice. Do not neglect to have it well filled, and well pounded, as it is filling. Ice, put in whilst the weather is intensely cold, keeps better than that which is taken up in more moderate weather—and still...
45From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 2 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 29th Ulto is received. It gives me pain to find by it, that the Rains which you have had has gullied the fields more than they were. I wish, as I did on former information of this kind, that, if it be practicable, these breaches could be repaired, always, as soon as they happen. Unless this is done, in time, they grow worse & worse, until the fields are disfigured, and in a...
46From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 3 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 25th of Jany came duly to hand; but the usual one, containing the Reports, is not yet arrived; detained, as is supposed with the Mail, by Ice in the Susquehanna. Under cover with this letter you will receive some Lima Beans which Mrs Washington desires may be given to the Gardener; also Panicum or Guinea Corn, from the Island of Jamaica, which may be planted merely to see...