Letter not found: from Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, 16 Jan. 1797. GW wrote Fergusson on 5 March and acknowledged her “very polite and obliging favour of the 16th of January” (see Papers, Retirement Series description begins W. W. Abbot et al., eds. The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series. 4 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1998–99. description ends 1:6–7).