11From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 14 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
I arrived in this City yesterday afternoon, without encountering any accident except what you are acquainted with by the return of the Mare from George Town; and the indisposition of Richard; who, with difficulty, was able to travel from Baltimore to this place, on acct of the fever wch returnd on him. Recollecting that it was my desire that you should send the Reports to the Post Office every...
12From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 21 October 1792 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Anthony Whitting, 21 Oct. 1792. Whitting wrote GW on 31 Oct. , acknowledging receipt of GW’s letter “with the Bill of Scantling & List of plants from Norfolk.” An ALS of this letter was offered for sale in 1926 in James F. Drake, A Catalogue of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, number 177, item 357. According to the catalog entry, which provides the date of 21 Oct., this...
13From 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...
14From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 4 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I was very glad to receive your letter of the 31st ulto because I was affraid, from the account given me of your spitting blood, by my Nephews George & Lawrence Washington, that you would hardly have been able to have written at all. And it is my request that you will not, by attempting more than you are able to undergo, with safety & convenience, injure your self; & thereby render me a...
15From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 11 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Since my last, I have received your letters of the 2d and 7th instant, and shall notice such parts of them as require it, and give such directions respecting my business, committed to your management, as may occur to me. I shall again express my wish, and, as the raising of corn at the Mansion-House is given up, will also add my anxiety, to have all the ground (except single trees and clumps...
16From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 14 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 9th came to my hands last night, and though I am much hurried, will briefly observe, that I had rather repair my Seins, and fish myself, than hire the landing with the Negros. If a good price could be obtained for the Landing without the Negros, and an express prohibition of Waggons coming thither, I should like, & would prefer that. But at any rate repair, & keep the Seins...
17From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 18 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letters of the 9th & 14th instt came duly to hand. To the first I hastily replied the morning after it was received, and shall add nothing further on that subject, in this letter, respecting the Fishery. If the Mansn house people are permanently distributed to the plantations, to which they are destined; or, as soon as they are so; let all the Overseers know that they are no longer to...
18From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 25 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 21st instant enclosing the Reports of the preceeding week was received yesterday; but the Sheriffs acct of taxes was not, though mentioned, among the papers which were sent to me. As you think (as I do also) that the new part of the old Clover lot at the Mansion house had better be in Potatoes, Perhaps it would be well, to apply those you have, to this purpose; & instead of...
19From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 2 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 22d of Novr enclosing the Sheriffs account has been duly received; but no letter nor Report was receivd from you yesterday, as usual; which makes me fear that you are sick, or that some accident has happened; as I have never missed before, receiving on Saturday the letter and reports which you send to Alexandria on Wednesday. I am always anxious to hear once a week from...
20From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 9 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 28th of Novr, which ought to have been here the first day of this month, did not arrive until the 4th; that of the 5th came yesterday, at the usual time. I thought I had, in a former letter, desired that all the large Cedars in the Lucern lot might be left standing; as they could, at any time, be thinned after I had seen them, free from other things. This is the footing I...