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3
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:475.
4
WWF,
24:271. Letter to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, May 22, 1782.
5
Ibid., 24:91. Letter to Colonel Matthias Ogden, March 28, 1782.
6
Ibid.
7
Wood, “The Making of a Disaster.”
8
Grizzard,
George Washington,
18.
9
Ibid.
10
Ibid., 19.
11
Callahan,
Henry Knox,
193.
12
WWF,
24:307. Letter to Brigadier General Elias Dayton, June 4, 1782.
13
Isaacson,
Benjamin Franklin,
413.
14
WWF,
24:313-14. “The Address of the Commander in Chief … on the Banks of the Hudson, June 5, 1782.”
15
Ibid., 24:273. Letter from Colonel Lewis Nicola, May 22, 1782.
16
WWR,
468-69. Letter to Colonel Lewis Nicola, May 22, 1782.
17
Ibid.
18
WWF,
25:37. Letter to the Reverend William Smith, August 18, 1782.
19
Ibid., 25:151. Letter to James McHenry, September 12, 1782.
20
Ibid., 25:176. Letter to Thomas Paine, September 18, 1782.
21
Ibid
.,
25:273. Letter to Benjamin Franklin, October 18, 1782.
22
Ibid., 25:142. “General Orders,” September 9, 1782.
23
Ibid., 25:179. “General Orders,” September 18, 1782.
24
Ibid., 25:303. “General Orders,” October 28, 1782.
25
Ibid., 24:488. “General Orders,” August 7, 1782.
26
Ibid., 25:281. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, October 20, 1782.
27
WWR,
484. Letter to Nathanael Greene, February 6, 1783.
28
WWF,
22:497. Letter to George Walton and Richard Howley, August 13, 1781.
29
WWR,
479. Letter to Joseph Jones, December 14, 1782.
30
WWF,
25:270. Letter to James McHenry, October 17, 1782.
31
WWR,
481. Letter to Tench Tilghman, January 10, 1783.
32
WWF,
26:97. Letter to Major General William Heath, February 5, 1783.
33
Ibid., 26:26. Letter to Major General John Armstrong, January 10, 1783.
34
Ibid., 25:465. Letter to Colonel Timothy Pickering, December 25, 1782.
35
WWR,
473. Letter to Benjamin Lincoln, October 7, 1782.
36
WWF,
25:227. Letter to the Secretary at War, October 2,1782.
37
Ibid., 26:42. Letter to John Augustine Washington, January 16, 1783.
38
Ibid., 26:43.
39
Ibid., 26:44.
40
. Ibid.
41
Ibid., 26:137. Letter to David Rittenhouse, February 16, 1783.
42
Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
176.
43
Ibid., 177.
44
Ibid.
45
WWR,
488. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, March 4, 1783.
46
Ibid., 489.
47
Chernow,
Alexander Hamilton,
179.
48
WWR,
1108.
49
Ibid.
50
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:503.
51
WWR,
490. “General Orders,” March 11, 1783.
52
Ibid., 492. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, March 12, 1783.
53
WWF,
26:229.
54
WWR,
497. “Speech to the Officers of the Army,” March 15, 1783.
55
Ibid., 498.
56
Ibid., 500.
57
Ibid.
58
Freeman,
George Washington,
5:435.
59
Brookhiser,
Founding Father
, 45.
60
WWR,
501. Letter to Joseph Jones, March 18, 1783.
61
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
78.
62
Ibid., 215.
 
 
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: CLOSING THE DRAMA WITH APPLAUSE
1
Thompson,
Statements Regarding the Physical Appearance,
32.
2
Flexner,
George Washington,
1:192.
3
Ibid, 2:432.
4
Ibid., 2:499.
5
Brown, “The Antiquities of Dental Prothesis,”
Dental Cosmos,
November 1934.
6
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:500.
7
Henriques,
Realistic Visionary
, 154.
8
Unger,
Unexpected George Washington,
163.
9
WWR,
513. “General Orders,” April 18, 1783.
10
Ibid.
11
Ibid.
12
WWF,
26:274. Letter to Theodorick Bland, March 31, 1783.
13
Ibid., 26:370. Letter to Governor Benjamin Harrison, April 30, 1783.
14
Ibid., 26:364. Letter to Daniel Parker, April 28, 1783.
15
Hochschild,
Bury the Chains,
102.
16
WWF,
26:402. “Substance of a Conference between General Washington and Sir Guy Carleton,” May 6, 1783.
17
Hochschild,
Bury the Chains,
102.
18
Wiencek,
Imperfect God,
257.
19
Hochschild,
Bury the Chains,
102.
20
WWF,
26:404. “Substance of a Conference between General Washington and Sir Guy Carleton,” May 6, 1783.
21
Hochschild,
Bury the Chains,
104.
22
Ibid., 102.
23
Wiencek,
Imperfect God,
256.
24
WWR,
505. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, March 31, 1783.
25
Ibid., 509. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, April 5, 1783.
26
Ibid., 516. “Circular to State Governments,” June 8, 1783.
27
Ibid., 516-17.
28
Ibid., 517
.
29
Ibid., 517-18.
30
Ibid., 518.
31
Ibid., 520.
32
Ibid., 526.
33
Ibid.
34
PWCF,
1:329. Letter to Henry Knox
,
September 23, 1783.
35
WWF,
27:57. Letter to George William Fairfax, July 10, 1783.
36
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:517.
37
Ibid.
38
PWCF,
1:2. Letter to Richard Varick, January 1, 1784.
39
Brady,
Martha Washington,
143.
40
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:519.
41
Ibid.
42
Nelson,
Thomas Paine,
174.
43
Ibid., 175.
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: CINCINNATUS
1
Schiff,
Great Improvisation,
317.
2
WWR,
543-44. “Farewell Address to the Armies of the United States,” November 2, 1783.
3
Ibid., 543.
4
Brady,
Martha Washington,
151.
5
Lee,
Experiencing Mount Vernon,
34.
6
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas Farewell,
22.
7
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:478.
8
Freeman,
George Washington,
5:462-63.
9
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas Farewell,
69.
10
WWF,
27:254. Letter to Sir Guy Carleton, December 2, 1783.
11
Ibid., 27:111. Letter to Samuel Fraunces, August 18, 1783.
12
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas Farewell,
85.
13
Ibid.
14
Ibid.
15
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:524.
16
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas Farewell,
86.
17
PWCF,
1:195.
18
Ibid.
19
Ibid., 1:196.
20
Ibid.
21
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas Farewell,
131.
22
Ibid., 130.
23
Ibid., 107.
24
Ibid., 138.
25
WWF,
27:285.
26
Ibid., 27:286.
27
Ibid.
28
Ibid., 27:283. Letter to Baron von Steuben, December 23, 1783.
29
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:526.
30
WWR,
547. “Address to Congress on Resigning Commission,” December 23, 1783.
31
Flexner,
George Washington,
2:526.
32
WWR,
548. “Address to Congress on Resigning Commission,” December 23, 1783.
33
MTV
. “
Early Descriptions Ante 1800.” Letter from Mary Ridout to Anne Tasker Ogle, June 16, 1784.
34
Wood,
Revolutionary Characters,
42.
35
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas Farewell,
164.
36
Kaminski,
Great and Good Man,
28.
37
Evans,
Genius of Gilbert Stuart,
141.
38
Burns and Dunn,
George Washington,
27.
 
 
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: AMERICAN CELEBRITY
1
PWCF,
1:88. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 1, 1784.
2
Ibid., 88.
3
Ibid., 1:138. Letter to Henry Knox
,
February 20, 1784.
4
Ibid., 1:137-38.
5
WWF,
27:287-88. Letter to Governor George Clinton, December 28, 1783.
6
PWCF,
1:87-89. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 1, 1784.
7
Ibid., 1:121.
8
Ibid., 1:123. “To the Citizens of Fredericksburg,” ca. February 14, 1784.
9
WWR,
552. Letter to Benjamin Harrison, January 18, 1784.
10
Ibid.
11
Brady,
Martha Washington,
147.
12
Unger,
Unexpected George Washington,
155.
13
WWR,
578. Letter to Tench Tilghman, June 2, 1785.
14
Thompson,
“In the Hands of a Good Providence,”
9.
15
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
201.
16
PWP,
6:547. Letter to Tobias Lear, October 10, 1790.
17
Fields,
“Worthy Partner,”
200.
18
Unger,
Unexpected George Washington,
141.
19
Thompson,
Memorandum for the Martha Washington Anniversary Committee,
11.
20
Weintraub,
General Washington’s Christmas,
172.
21
PWCF,
3:296. Letter to Armand, October 7, 1785.
22
Ibid., 1:161. Letter to Fielding Lewis, Jr., February 24, 1784.
23
WWR,
555. Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, February 1, 1784.
24
PWCF,
2:253. Letter to Henry Knox
,
January 5, 1785.
25
WWF,
27:2. Letter to Lund Washington, June 11, 1783.
26
Diaries,
4:255.
27
Lee,
Experiencing Mount Vernon,
93.
28
PWRT,
3:112. Letter to Mildred Thornton Washington, October 18, 1798.
29
Chinard,
George Washington as the French Knew Him,
83.
30
Diaries,
4:157. Diary entry for June 30, 1785.
31
PWCF,
3:275. Letter to Benjamin Franklin, September 26, 1785.
32
Schiff,
Great Improvisation,
360.
33
DiariesA,
300. Diary entry for March 19, 1786.
34
MTV
. “
Early Descriptions Ante 1800.” Isaac Weld, Jr., ca. 1796.
35
Lee,
Experiencing Mount Vernon,
27.
36
Ibid., 28.
37
Ibid.
38
Ibid.
39
Ibid.
40
Ibid., 31.
41
Ibid.
42
Cunliffe,
George Washington,
161.
43
Ibid.
44
Chinard,
George Washington as the French Knew Him,
86.
45
MTV
.
“Early Descriptions Ante 1800.”
46
Cadou,
George Washington Collection,
240.
47
Hervey,
Memory of Washington,
88.
48
PWCF,
3:381. Letter to Elizabeth French Dulany, November 23, 1785.
49
Brookhiser,
Founding Father
, 47.
50
Thompson,
“In the Hands of a Good Providence,”
80.
51
PWCF,
3:63. Letter to Henry Knox
,
June 18, 1785.
52
Ibid., 31:71. Letter to Richard Henry Lee, June 22, 1785.

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