“Know my good friend that no distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder, and that the wonders of former ages may be revived in this”

— George Washington

But alas! will you not remark that amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a young Woman from real inclination has prefered an old man — This is so much against me that I shall not be able I fear to contest the prize with you — yet, under the encouragement you have given me I shall enter the list for so inestimable a jewell.
Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette (30 September 1779)
1770s

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first President of the United States 1732–1799

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