ALS, PPAmP: Charles Nicoll Bancker Papers. In a signed note at the bottom of the page, Beasley wrote, "After this was sent to me, I met Judge Washington in Phialdelphia, & he passed over the street from the opposite side, to inform me of having read my work— He said that the subject of wh. it treated, was one wh. had always been very interesting to him—That he had studied all the works upon the subject—that mine was more clear & satisfactory to him than any other he had ever perused."