Mount Vernon, July 10, 1784
Dear Sir:1
I have been favored with your letter of June 30th.2 I thank you for the friendly style of it, and pray you to be assured that I shall, at all times, be glad to see you at Mount Vernon.
Business, and old concerns of the War, with which I have now nothing to do, are still pressed upon me. This, and Company, has left me little liezure hitherto to look into matters which more immediately relate to myself. but finding it necessary, I mean to devote my forenoons to business, while I give the after part of the day to my friends, ’till I can (if that should ever be) bring my Affairs into order again. With this indulgence from my friends, their visits can never be unseasonable, and none will be received with more pleasure than those of Mr. Massey.
With great esteem etc.3
1 Reverend Lee Massey of Pohick Church, Va.
2 Dated from Occoquan, Va.
3 From a photograph of the original, owned, in 1930, by Mrs. L. M. Welsh, of Kansas City, Mo. It was a gift of Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, of Cambridge, Mass.