From George Washington to David Stuart, 5 June 1785
To David Stuart
Mount Vernon 5th June 85.
Dear Sir,
The celebrated Mrs Macauly Graham, & Mr Graham her Husband, are here on a Visit. As I wish to shew them all the respect I can, I should be glad if you, Mrs Stuart & your Sister, would come to morrow or next day, and dine with us.1 I am—Dr Sir Yr Obedt & Affecte Hble Ser⟨vt⟩
Go: Washington
P.S. Come tomorrow if convenient.
ALS (photocopy), R-Ar.
1. Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, the historian, and her husband William Graham arrived at Mount Vernon on 4 June for a ten-day visit. See , 4:148–53, Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser, 9 June, and Richard Henry Lee to GW, 3 May 1785, n.3. Stuart came to dinner on 7 June, without either his wife Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart or his sister Ann Stuart, and “stayed all Night” ( , 4:149).