11From George Washington to William Gordon, 23 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
Your letter dated in London the 24th of Septr has been duly forwarded to me by your friend Mr Hazard. As I shall be able to notice the contents but generally and briefly; I request, in the first place, that you will be pleased to accept my best thanks for your good wishes for my happiness here and hereafter. I am pleased to learn that your History is at length completed. I conclude by the...
12From George Washington to William Gordon, 6 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
Altho’ I am so great a delinquent in the epistolary way, I will not again tread over the usual ground for an excuse, but rather silently throw myself upon your philanthropy to obtain one. In reading the Memoir which passed thro’ my hands to you (for I have no copy of it) I do not recollect that I was struck with any exagerations or improprieties in it; nor is it in my power to give you a...