Thursday 4th. Thermometer at 25 this Morning—42 at Noon and 40 at Night. Wind still at No. Wt. and fresh—but after the Morning the cold was not so severe as yesterday.
At home all day.
[Diary entry: 4 December 1788]
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- Washington Papers
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- [Diary entry: 4 December 1788]
- Author
- Washington, George
- Date
- 4 December 1788
Ancestor groups
- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: December 1788
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- “[Diary entry: 4 December 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0012-0004. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 430.]