CULLED FROM the six volumes of The Diaries of George Washington completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers editor Dorothy Twohig reveals the lifelong preoccupations of the public and private man.
The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded.
His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen.
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life.
CULLED FROM the six volumes of The Diaries of George Washington completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers editor Dorothy Twohig reveals the lifelong preoccupations of the public and private man