Washington [589]
22. WWR,645. Letter to Edmund Randolph, March 28, 1787.
23. Ibid.
24. Wood, Revolutionary Characters, 45.
25. PWCF,5:119. Letter to Henry Knox, April 2, 1787.
26. Ibid., 5:36.
27. Ibid.
28. Conkling, Memoirs of Mother and Wife of Washington, 57.
29. PWCF, 5:33. Letter to Mary Ball Washington, February 15, 1787.
30. Ibid., 5:34.
31. Ibid., 5:35.
32. Freeman, Washington, 558.
33. PWCF,5:157. Letter to Henry Knox, April 27, 1787.
34. Ibid., 5:171. Letter to Robert Morris, May 5, 1787.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., 158.
37. Ibid., 171. Letter to Robert Morris, May 5, 1787.
38. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 265.
39. Kaminski and McCaughan, Great and Good Man, 83.
40. WWR,413. Letter to Sarah Bache, January 15, 1781.
41. Schiff, A Great Improvisation, 359.
42. PWCF, 5:189. Letter to George Augustine Washington, May 17, 1787.
43. Unger, Unexpected George Washington, 178.
44. PWCF,5:186.
45. DiariesA,315. Diary entry for May 18, 1787.
46. Ibid., 316. Diary entry for May 23, 1787.
47. Maxey, Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel, 26.
48. Ibid., 21.
49. WWR,224. Letter to John Augustine Washington, May 31, 1776.
50. DiariesA,315.
51. Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, 446.
52. DiariesA,317.
53. WWR, 708. “Fragments of a Draft of the First Inaugural Address,” ca. January 1789.
54. Burns and Dunn, George Washington, 37.
55. Wills, Cincinnatus, 107.
56. PWCF, 5:208. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 30, 1787.
57. Morgan, Genius of George Washington, 5.
58. Kaminski and McCaughan, Great and Good Man, 87.
59. PWCF,5:219.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: RISING SUN
1. PWCF,5:219. Letter to George Augustine Washington, June 3, 1787.
2. Ketcham, James Madison, 210.
3. Chernow, Alexander Hamilton, 235.
4. Ibid., 236.
5. WWR,653. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, July 10, 1787.
6. Diaries,5:177. Diary entry for July 22, 1787.
7. Ibid., 5:179. Diary entry for July 31, 1787.
8. Ibid.
9. DiariesA,324. Diary entry for August 19, 1787.
10. Diaries,5:172. Diary entry for June 30, 1787.
11. PWCF,5:269. Letter to Elizabeth Willing Powel, July 23, 1787.
12. Ibid., 5:280. Letter to Elizabeth Willing Powel, July 30, 1787.
13. Callahan, General Knox, 262.
14. Higginbotham, George Washington Reconsidered, 124.
15. Wiencek, Imperfect God, 266.
16. Wood, “Reading the Founders’ Minds.”
17. Morgan, “Problem of Slavery.”
18. Ibid.
19. Wood, Empire of Liberty, 73.
20. Ibid., 119.
21. Burns and Dunn, George Washington, 42.
22. PWCF, 5:321. Letter to George Augustine Washington, September 9, 1787.
23. Ibid., 5:400. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, October 30, 1787.
24. Monroe, View of the Conduct of the Executive, iv. WWR, 800. Letter to Gouverneur Morris, January 28, 1792.
25. WWR,932. Letter to the House of Representatives, March 30, 1796.
26. Ibid., 668. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788.
27. Ibid., 695. Letter to Edward Newenham, August 29, 1788.
28. Ibid., 669. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788.
29. PWP, 2:245. Letter to Philip Schuyler, May 9, 1789.
30. Fahim, “George Washington Letter Found in Scrapbook.” New York Times, April 27, 2007.
31. Maxey, Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel, 30.
32. Ibid.
33. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power, 34.
34. Brookhiser, Founding Father, 66.
35. Goldwin, From Parchment to Power, 59.
36. Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters, 196.
37. Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, 753.
38. PWCF, 5:331. Letter to the President of Congress, September 17, 1787.
39. Diaries,5:186. Diary entry for September 19, 1787.
40. DiariesA,325. Diary entry for September 22, 1787.
41. WWR,671. Letter to John Armstrong, April 25, 1788.
42. Ibid., 658. Letter to Henry Knox, October 15, 1787.
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE: MOUNTING THE SEAT
1. PWCF,5:425.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., 5:399-400. Letter from Gouverneur Morris, October 30, 1787.
4. Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, 756.
5. Wills, Cincinnatus, 157.
6. Ibid., 173.
7. PWCF, 6:448. Letter to Charles Pettit, August 16, 1788.
8. WWR,667. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 7, 1788.
9. Ibid., 662. Letter to Bushrod Washington,