Washington [587]
13. PWCF,2:78. Letter to Thomas Freeman, September 23, 1784.
14. Ibid., 2:119. Letter to Jacob Read, November 3,1784.
15. DiariesA,252.
16. Unger, Lafayette, 260.
17. DiariesA,251. Diary entry for September 14, 1784.
18. Ibid., 254.
19. Ibid., 265. Diary entry for October 4, 1784.
20. Ibid.
21. PWCF,6:111. Letter to Alexander Spotswood, February 13, 1788.
22. Jackman, “Young Englishman Reports.”
23. PWCF,3:90. Letter to George William Fairfax, June 30, 1785.
24. DiariesA,xvii.
25. PWP, 1:161. Letter to Arthur Young, December 4, 1788.
26. Ibid.
27. Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 171.
CHAPTER FORTY: DEVIL’S BARGAIN
1. Hochschild, Bury the Chains, 156.
2. Ibid.
3. WWR,1110. Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette, February 5, 1783.
4. Ibid.
5. Unger, Lafayette, 173.
6. Ibid., 174.
7. PWCF, 1:27. Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette, January 10, 1784.
8. Ibid., 2:72. Letter from La Luzerne, September 12, 1784.
9. Ibid., 2:172. Letter to La Luzerne, December 5, 1784.
10. Ibid., 1:258. Letter to Adrienne, Marquise de Lafayette, April 4, 1784.
11. Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 157.
12. PWCF,1:189. Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette, March 9, 1784.
13. Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 159.
14. PWCF,2:64. Letter from William Gordon, August 30, 1784.
15. Unger, Lafayette, 198.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., 200.
18. PWCF, 2:175. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, December 8, 1784.
19. Ibid., 4:43. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 10, 1786.
20. Ibid., 4:44.
21. Higginbotham, George Washington Reconsidered, 122.
22. PWCF, 3:356. Letter from James Madison, November 11, 1785.
23. DiariesA,301.
24. WWR,593. Letter to Robert Morris, April 12, 1786.
25. Ibid., 593-94.
26. Ibid., 594.
27. WWR,607. Letter to John Francis Mercer, September 9, 1786.
28. Ibid., 608.
29. Decatur, Private Affairs of George Washington, 316.
30. PWCF,4:465. Letter to John Francis Mercer, December 19, 1786.
31. Ibid., 5:2. Letter to John Francis Mercer, February 1, 1787.
32. Ibid., 5:10. Letter to Henry Lee, Jr., February 4, 1787.
33. WWR,701-2.
34. Henriques, Realistic Visionary, 148.
35. Lee, Experiencing Mount Vernon, 68.
36. DiariesA, 313.
37. Diaries,4:277. Diary entry for February 17, 1786.
38. PWCF, 2:14. Letter to Clement Biddle, July 28, 1784.
39. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 349.
40. Henriques, Realistic Visionary, 148.
41. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 120.
42. PWCF,6:88. Letter to Henry Knox, February 5, 1788.
43. Diaries,5:260. Diary entries for January 3 and 4, 1788.
44. PWCF,6:88. Letter to Henry Knox, February 5, 1788.
45. Diaries,5:273. Diary entry for February 6, 1788.
46. Ibid.
47. Diaries,4:259. Diary entry for January 4, 1786.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: THE RUINS OF THE PAST
1. PWCF,6:502. Letter to William Barton, September 7, 1788.
2. Flexner, George Washington, 2:513.
3. Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, 422.
4. Callahan, Henry Knox, 222.
5. PWCF,1:142-43. Letter from Henry Knox, February 21, 1784.
6. Ibid., 1:190. Letter from the Marquis de Lafayette, March 9, 1784.
7. Ibid., 1:260. Letter to Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., April 4, 1784.
8. Ibid., 1:288-89. Letter from Thomas Jefferson, April 16, 1784.
9. Ibid., 6:502. Letter to William Barton, September 7, 1788.
10. Ibid., 1:330. “Observations on the Institution of the Society,” ca. May 4, 1784.
11. Wills, Cincinnatus, 144.
12. PWCF,4:378. Letter to Theodorick Bland, November 18, 1786.
13. Ibid., 3:213. Letter to Arthur St. Clair, August 31, 1785.
14. WWF, 24:497. Letter to Elkanah Watson, August 10, 1782.
15. McCammant, George Washington the Mason, 5.
16. PWCF, 2:233. Letter to James Madison, December 28, 1784.
17. Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 164.
18. WWR,569. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, December 14, 1784.
19. Lee, Experiencing Mount Vernon, 24.
20. Ibid., 25.
21. WWR,571. Letter to Benjamin Harrison, January 22, 1785.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., 572.
24. PWCF,2:399. Letter to Henry Knox, February 28, 1785.
25. Ibid., 2:163. Letter to Edmund Randolph, July 30, 1785.
26. Lee, Experiencing Mount Vernon, 28-29.
27.