The writings of George Washington; 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. By Jared Sparks.

PART I.] PRIVATE LETTERS. 373
TO LORD DUNMORE, GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
Mount Vernon, 13 April, 1773.
MY LORD,
In obedience to your Lordship's request, I do myself
the honor to inform you, that, by letters this day received from Dr. Cooper of King's College in New York, I
find it will be about the first of next month before I
shall set off for that place, and that it will perhaps be
the middle of June before I return. Harvest then coming on, and seldom ending till after the middle of July,
I could almost wish to see it accomplished; but if the
delay in doing it is attended with any kind of inconvenience to your Lordship, I will, at all events, be ready by
the first of July to accompany you through any and
every part of the western country, which you may
think proper to visit.
I beg the favor of your Lordship to inform me,
therefore, as nearly as you can, of the precise time you
will do me the honor of calling here, that I may get
ready accordingly, and give notice of it to Mr. Crawford (if your Lordship purposes to take the route of
Pittsburg), whom I took the liberty of recommending as
a good woods-man, and well acquainted with the lands
in that quarter, that he may be disengaged when we
get to his house, which is directly on that communication. I am persuaded, that such a person will be found
very necessary in an excursion of this sort, from his
superior knowledge of the country, and of the inhabitants, who are thinly scattered over it.
No person can be better acquainted with the equipage and simple conveniences necessary in an undertaking of this sort, than your Lordship, and, therefore,
it would be impertinent in me to mention them; but if
your Lordship should find it convenient to have any
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