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Title Daily Entry
10 April 1797

GW at Mount Vernon, where he wrote Secretary of State Timothy Pickering to acknowledge receipt of an agricultural pamphlet from John Sinclair.
14 March 1789

GW at Mount Vernon. Scottish immigrant Robert Dick sent GW a copy of a 1787 report describing the economic activities of Quebec.
13 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote Francis Hopkinson, a judge of the Pa. admiralty court.
09 March 1789

GW at Mount Vernon.
23 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that he went with Mrs. Washington to see the works of John Trumbull, the notable American painter who painted several portraits of GW.
14 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote in his diary that both houses of Congress came to the Presidential Residence to address himself and Cabinet.
09 January 1790

GW in N.Y. GW wrote to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, a prominent woman in British literary and philanthropic circles with whom he had begun a friendly correspondence in 1785.
25 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW responded to N.Y. Gov. George Clinton’s 10 March letter, thanking his friend for the invitation to host him if he should have to go to N.Y. as the new president.
24 March 1789

From Mount Vernon, GW wrote his nephew Robert Lewis to give him instructions on preparing for his new job as GW’s secretary.
23 March 1789

GW at Mount Vernon. GW wrote his nephew, George Steptoe Washington, a long letter of advice for him to reference as he stepped into adulthood.

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