[138] May 9, 1793. (L'Enfant papers.)
[139] He seems to have tried to help the financier rather than to be helped by him. Ill-satisfied as he was with the house, for which he, apparently, never paid l'Enfant anything, Morris wrote: "But he lent me thirteen shares of bank stock disinterestedly, and on this point I feel the greatest anxiety that he should get the same number of shares with the dividends, for the want of which he has suffered great distress." Written about 1800. W.B. Bryan, History of the National Capital, 1914, p. 181.
[140] S.C. Busey, Pictures of the City of Washington in the Past, 1898, p. 108.
[141] Memoirs of 1801, 1802, 1813, in the Jefferson papers, Library of Congress.
[142] Letter from his cousin, Destouches, Paris, September 15, 1805, greatly exaggerating, as shown by the letter mentioned below, his mother's state of poverty. (L'Enfant papers.)
[143] From his cousin, Mrs. Roland, née Mallet, whose husband had a modest position at the Ministry of the Navy; Paris, May 5, 1806. The mother's furniture and silver plate was valued at 1,500 livres. Allusion is made to L'Enfant's deceased sister and to her "mariage projeté avec Mr. Leclerc." (L'Enfant papers.)
[144] To David Stuart November 20, 1791.
[145] Hugh T. Taggart, in Records of the Columbia Historical Society, XI, 216.
[146] Voyage en Amérique, VI, 122 ff.
[147] May 22, 1911.