George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 1 June 1796

From Elizabeth Willing Powel

[Philadelphia] Wednesday June 1st 1796

Dear Sir

Feeling myself incapable of nourishing an implacable Resentment; and in conformity with your better and dispassionate Judgment I have after maturely considering all that passed Yesterday, determined to dine with you Tomorrow, when I will endeavor to meet your Ideas with Fortitude.1 With Sentiments of Respect & Affection I am Sir Your sincere Friend

Eliza. Powel

ALS, DLC:GW; ALS, ViMtvL. The ALS at DLC has a cover with GW’s docket; the ALS at ViMtvL was most likely a retained copy or draft.

1. For the possibly romantic dimensions of Powel’s friendship with GW, see Fraser, Washingtons, description begins Flora Fraser. The Washingtons: George and Martha, “Join’d by Friendship, Crown’d by Love.” New York, 2015. description ends 288, 340, 350–51.

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    To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 1 June 1796
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    Powel, Elizabeth Willing
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    Washington, George
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    1 June 1796

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    “To George Washington from Elizabeth Willing Powel, 1 June 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0160. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 226.]

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