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.
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his
eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados
when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early
phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded
a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume,
he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was
on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of
unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in
command of a revolutionary army.
Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the
Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president,
Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In
his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming
he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in
material from this private sphere, "George Washington's Diaries: An
Abridgment" offers historians and anyone interested in Washington a
closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his
death.
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