1From 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...
2From 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...
3From 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...
4From 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...
5From 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...
6From 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...
7From 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...
8From 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...
9From 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...
10From 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...
11From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 16 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 12th with its enclosures came duly to hand, and under cover with this letter you will receive Invoice & Bill of lading for somethings which went from hence yesterday. I thought it best to send you, ready prepared, the Plaster of Paris from hence. March or April will be time enough to spread it (at the rate of 5 or 6 bushls to the acre) on the Lawns before each door; if there...
12From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 19 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The bearer Mr James Butler is the person I mentioned to you in my last as an Overlooker of the home house concern; and enclosed is the agreement I have entered into with him for that purpose. I am in great hopes, from the character given of him to me, that he may be found serviceable, keep him however to his duty, and whenever he is found difficient in it let both him & me know it. I am Your...
13From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 23 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 19th instant, enclosing the weekly reports, has been duly received. By Mr James Butler who left this City on friday last, I wrote you a few lines enclosing the agreement I had entered into with him. I request that the Smiths Book may be put into his hands, and a regular account taken every night of what they have done in the day; and that he will see they do as much as they...
14From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 30 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letters of the 21st & 26th instt, and am a little surprized to find by the last that Mr James Butler had not reached Mount Vernon before the date of it—He left this City on the 21st and according to the usual course, & time required for the Stages to run, he ought to have been in Alexandria on Monday last, the 24th of this month. Notwithstanding the reduced number of...
15From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 6 January 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 2d instant with its enclosures came to hand yesterday —and I am glad to find by it that Mr James Butler had arrived safe for I began to apprehend that he might have fallen sick on the Road, as he had not reached Mount Vernon at the date of your former letter of the 26th Ulto. If this person performs all the duties I have Suggested to you as proper for him to be employed in,...
16From 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...