concludes as usual.

"Spurriers," November 23, 1790.

[He is now on his journey to Philadelphia in his own
travelling carriage with Mrs. Washington; the children, and
the servants in attendance on the children, being in the
stage-coach hired for the occasion.]

He dates from this tavern twelve or fourteen miles south of Baltimore.
The roads, he says, are in-famous--no hope of reaching Baltimore that
night, as they had not yet gone to dinner but were waiting for it. The
letter is only of a few lines, and evidently written in haste, though he
never makes apologies on that account.

Georgetown, March 28, 1791.

[The General and family arrived in Philadelphia and took
possession of Mr. Morris's house. The session of Congress
passed over. It was the short session. He was now on his
return to Mount Vernon, having reached the above town on the
Maryland side of the Potomac, from which he dates.]

This letter is on his private affairs. He expresses dissatisfaction at
the conduct of ****** one of his agents in the State of----, in letting
out his property and receiving his rents; he is too well acquainted, he
says, with facts that bear upon the case to be imposed upon by the tale
he tells; and even his own letter proves him to be what he would not
call him.

Mount Vernon, April 3, 1791. This letter is also in part on his private
affairs. It contains further complaints of this agent. In the closing
parts of it [there being at this time growing apprehensions of trouble
with the Indians] he makes the remark, that until we could restrain the
turbulence and disorderly conduct of our own borderers, it would be in
vain he feared to expect peace with the Indians; or that they would
govern their own people better than we did ours.

[It was in the following autumn that General St. Clair's
army was defeated by them in the neighborhood of the Miami
Villages.]

Mount Vernon, April 6, 1791. A short letter. It mentions his intention
of continuing his journey southward the next day; his horses being well
recruited, he hopes they will go on better than they have come from
Philadelphia. He incloses Mr. Lear, who remains in Philadelphia, some
letters to be put on file, and requests him to pay a man who had been
working in the garden.

[The journey southward next day was the commencement of his
tour to the Southern States, having made one into the
Northern State