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3816. HUMPHREYS (David), Attacks on.—

Colonel Humphreys is attacked in the
[American] papers for his French airs, for
bad poetry, bad prose, vanity, &c. It is said his
dress, in so gay a style, gives general disgust
against him. * * * He seems fixed with General
Washington. [244]
To William Short. Washington ed. ii, 574. Ford ed., v, 71.
(P. 1789)

 
[244]

Washington made him his private secretary.——Editor.