1. See GW to Members of the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, c.27 Jan. 1793, and note 1.

2. At the end of this letter, Wilmer added a “List of Books sent His Excelle[n]cy by this days mail.” The list reads:

“1, Copy of the New Church Liturgy &c.

1, Do. J. Wilmers Sermon on opening the New church.

1, Do. Life of Swedenborg

1, of the ⟨9⟩ Questions

1, Memoir by J. Wilmer

1, on the Lord’s prayer.

1, news paper of to day.”

Wilmer’s A Sermon, on the Doctrine of the New-Jerusalem Church: Being the First Promulgated within the United States of America and his Memoirs (both Baltimore, 1792), Robert Hindmarsh’s A Short Account of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg, and His Theological Writings (London, 1792), and Emanuel Swedenborg’s Passages concerning the Lord’s Prayer, and Its Internal Sense (London, 1789) were in GW’s library at the time of his death (Griffin, Boston Athenæum Washington Collection, description begins Appleton P. C. Griffin, comp. A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenæum. Cambridge, Mass., 1897. description ends 101, 197, 227–28).

3. Wilmer probably enclosed the Maryland Journal, although the Baltimore Daily Repository and Baltimore Evening Post and Daily Advertiser were also published in Baltimore at this time.

4. The ode, which appears below Wilmer’s signature, is dated “Baltimore, Feby 1793” and described as being “From the new church.” It reads:

The publication of this ode in a Philadelphia newspaper on Monday, 11 Feb., which was the date of GW’s birthday before Great Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, has not been identified.