Washington is an odd place. you could see the Jonathans had designed it with an eye to the future, when they envisaged it as the finest city in the world… I got to know it well in the Civil War time, but I never liked it – sticky as Calcutta or Madras in summer, and yet its people dressed as though they’d been in New York or London. I could always smell fever in the air there, and why George Washington ever chose the site beats me. But that’s your rich colonial Englishman all over – never thinks twice about other people’s convenience.
Flash For Freedom!, p.123, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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