. Sally Kennedy Alexander (a great-granddaughter of Ellicott), April, 1896, in Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D. C., vol. 2, p. 176. 2 Ibid. 3 A trait of L'Enfant's personality is revealed by the charges he made for his work. It shows the exalted opinion he held of his

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