Excerpt from The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 9: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private; Selected and Published From the Original Manuscripts; With a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations Of my days in cultivating the affections Of good men, and in the practice Of the domestic virtues. Permit me still to consider you in the number Of my friends, and to wish you every felicity. Mrs. Washington joins me in presenting the compli ments of the season, with our best respects, to Mrs. Clinton and the family. I have the honor to be, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.