This is the first volume of the four-volume Retirement Series,
covering the interval between Washington's retirement from the
presidency on 4 March 1797 and his death on 14 December 1799.
Except for a trip to Philadelphia in 1798, Washington stuck close
to home, only occasionally going from Mount Vernon into Alexandria
or across the river to Georgetown and the new Federal City. The
management and improvement of his farms at Mount Vernon were his
major concern, and the pressing need for money forced him to give
particular attention to the disposition of his large landholdings
in the West. As Father of His Country he found himself not only
entertaining a constant stream of visitors but also responding to a
steady flow of letters from friends and strangers, foreign and
domestic. From the start, senators, congressmen, Adams's cabinet
members, and diplomats kept him informed of political developments.
Washington's absence from the public state, never much more than a
fiction, came to an end in July 1798 when his growing alarm over
French policy and the bitter divisions in the body politic arising
out of it led him to accept command of the army, with the promise
to take the field in case of a French invasion. And in 1799
Washington for the first time became deeply involved in partisan
electoral politics.
During the first ten months of his retirement, with which this
volume deals, Washington was, as he said, busier than ever before,
breaking in a new farm manager, repairing and refurbishing
long-neglected buildings, hiring new overseers and a new gardener
from Britain, and most difficult, and perhaps most important of
all, getting a proper cook for Mrs. Washington.
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