1To George Washington from Ségur, 24 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
I take the advantage of the departure of Mr Paul Jones to bring myself to the recollection of your Excellency, and to congratulate you upon the ratification of the new Constitution by the United States and electing you their President—They will not be deceived in their experience—Your wisdom will mantain the splendor of that liberty which your courage established. I earnestly wish that...
2From George Washington to Ségur, 1 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the honor to receive your Excellency’s letter of the 24th of August last; and I beg you will be persuaded that I have a grateful heart for the congratulations which you offer upon the organization of our new government, as well as for the warm expressions of personal attachment & good wishes for my happiness which your letter contained. It is with singular pleasure I can inform your...
3To George Washington from Ségur, 30 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
When I had the honor to bear Arms under the orders of your Excellency, I often formed a wish to become a citizen of that Country where I found so much liberty, wisdom, courage and virtue. Friendship and liberty have united France & America, and a Frenchman may become an American by remaining faithful to the politics and principles of his own Country. The wish which I formed is about to be...
4From George Washington to Ségur, 4 May 1792 (Washington Papers)
I received with much satisfaction the information of your having made an acquisition in this Country, & of your intentions to take up your residence among us. Your letter of the 30th of Sepr giving me this information, did not get to my hands ’till some time in the last month. The United States opens, as it were, a new World to those who are disposed to retire from the noise & bustle of the...
5To George Washington from Louis-Philippe, comte de Ségur, 8 February 1795 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency has too long accustomed me to your goodness for me to doubt that you will pardon my recommending to you the citizen Boislandry a french merchant who sails for america. He is a man distinguished for his probity, wisdom, & disposition; and I am persuaded that he will attract the esteem of all who may become acquainted with him. He was a deputy to the Constituant Assembly, in...
6To George Washington from Ségur, 4 August 1796 (Washington Papers)
I hope that your excellency will permit me to remember myself to you. you have so much accustomed my relations and myself to your kindnesses that I don’t fear to be troublesome in begging of you to be so kind as to forward the inclosed letter to Mr Lafayette my nephew. you are his second father, and I hope this motive will make you forgive the liberty which I take to put under your direction...
7From George Washington to Ségur, 24 June 1797 (Washington Papers)
Apologies at best, are but indifferent things, although at times they are necessary. That is the case with me at present, for having suffered your obliging favour of the 4th of August last to remain so long unacknowledged, it is incumbent on me to assign the reasons for it now. The truth is, it was long on its passage, and arrived at a time when my official duties engrossed all my attention,...