ALS : Mount Vernon, to William Augustine Washington, Westmoreland County, Va., 1798 Oct. 5.

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ALS : Mount Vernon, to William Augustine Washington, Westmoreland County, Va., 1798 Oct. 5.

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Washington tells his nephew that landowners in Washington, D.C. are being encouraged to build on their lots in order to provide enough accomodations that the members of Congress will arrive by the time they are legally required to be there, and adds that he has bought another lot for this purpose. Washington originally intended to send this letter by Gen. Henry Lee, but comments that since Lee's "ways are not like the ways of other men" he will use another messenger who has called in the meantime.

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