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Chapter 1. George Washington Epigraph. Humphreys, 35. 1. The rules were translated c. 1640 by Francis Hawkins from a set of precepts gathered by French Jesuits at the end of the sixteenth century. For Washington’s Rules of Civility, see the text and editorial commentary in George Washington’s Rules of Civility, and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation, ed. Charles Moore (Boston and New York: Printed for Houghton Mifflin Co. by the Riverside Press, 1926). See Richard Brookhiser, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (New York: Free Press, 1996), 127–129; and Papers, Colonial Series, 1:3, editor’s note. 2. George Washington to James Anderson, 21 Dec. 1797, Papers , Retirement Series, 1:525–526. For Washington’s motto, see also “Ancestral Origins and Emblems,” MVLAAR, 1963, 23. The motto was adapted by the Washington family from Ovid’s Heroides (2-55, line 85; cf. Loeb Classical Library edition, ed. G. Showerman [London: W. Heinemann; New York, Macmillan, 1914], 26). 3. Quoted from Howard Rice Jr., review of Henriette de Beaufort , Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (Rotterdam: A. Donker, 1948), in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 7, no. 3 (July 1950): 489. 4. “The Host of Mount Vernon, A Contemporary Describes GeorgeWashington,”1798,citedfromthecopyintheMVLALibrary. 5. Quoted from Gilbert Chinard, ed., George Washington as the French Knew Him: A Collection of Texts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940), 75 (12 Sept. 1779). 6. George Washington to Lund Washington, 30 Sept. 1776, Papers , Revolutionary Series, 6:442. 7. See Marguerite Castillon du Perron, Louis-Philippe et la Révolution Française, 2 vols. (Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 2:152)(“Jen’aijamaisécritunelettrenimêmeunmotquin’auraient pu être publiés”). 8. Christy Anderson, “Masculine and Unaffected: Inigo Jones and the Classical Ideal,” Art Journal 56, no. 2 (1997): 50. 9. John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 33–40, 271–273. For the related Doric order, Onians noted—in an observation relevant also for the history of Anglo-American architecture—that for Renaissance architect Filarete “the quality of Doric matches that of a gentleman; so his house should be Doric” (167). 10. Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman (London: Printed for Francis Constable, 1634), 221. 11. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. William Peden (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, pubn o t e s Abbreviations Diaries The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976–1979. Humphreys David Humphreys’ “Life of General Washington,” with George Washington’s Remarks. Ed. Rosemarie Zagarri. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. MVLA Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association MVLAAR The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union Annual Report. After 1996 called The Annual Report of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union. Papers The Papers of George Washington. Ed. W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Philander Chase, Beverly Runge, and Frederick Schmidt. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia/University of Virginia Press, 1983–. Available online at http://gwpapers.vir ginia.edu. Writings The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799. Ed. John Fitzpatrick. 30 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931–1944. 248 ' Notes to Pages 6–10 lished for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, VA, 1982), 153. 12. The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774–1777 (New York: Dial, 1924), 255. 13. See James Whitehead, ed., “Notes and Documents: The Autobiography of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, II,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 63, no. 3 (July 1939): 313. For Du Ponceau’s account, see also Chinard, George Washington as the French Knew Him, 18. Evelyn Acomb, “The Journal of Baron von Closen,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 10, no. 2 (Apr. 1953): 226–231. 14. See William Blount’s letter to his brother, John Gray Blount, in Archibald Henderson, Washington’s Southern Tour, 1791 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923), 6. Charles Varlo, quoted in William Spohn Baker, Washington after the Revolution, MDCCLXXXIV–MDCCXCIX (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1898), 18. 15. See William Baker, “Washington after the Revolution, 1784– 1799,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894): 394 (12 Apr. 1784). The assessment of Dutch soldier Francis Adrian van der Kemp is cited here from the editor’s note, Diaries, 5:369– 370. Washington recorded that “Mr. Vender Kemp” came to dinner at Mount Vernon on 29 July 1788. 16. Extracts of the Journals of Rev. Dr...

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