To George Washington from Benjamin Ogle, 12 July 1786
From Benjamin Ogle
Annapolis July 12 1786
Dr sr
It was not the least inconvenient to spare six fauns as I am at present fully stocked, & I shall think you lucky if you raise half—It would have been a very difficult matter to have got that number had I not this Spring forced the deer intirely out the Woods & great part of the Park, tending it in Tobacco with a view of laying it down in Grass in the fall it having grown over with Sedge I hope you received the fauns safe.1 I am Sr with great Esteem Sincerely yrs
Ben. Ogle
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. GW exchanged letters with Ogle in 1785 regarding deer for GW’s park (GW to Ogle, 17 Aug. 1785; Ogle to GW, 20 Aug. 1785).