1John Thaxter to John Adams, 26 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
I had the Honour of your favour of the 24th. instant this morning. The Master has been here twice this day and given for the first time Lessons in Greek and Latin to the Young Gentlemen. I am happy that they have begun. Their Instructor appears to be well acquainted with his Business, and to proceed with great Judgment. The Greek Grammar is one of his own Composition, and at present in Manu...
2Benjamin Waterhouse to John Adams, 26 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
I was glad to find by your letter of the 23d. inst. that what we have hitherto done meets with your approbation, and it is with no small satisfaction that I see all three of my countrymen pleased and contented with their situation. In regard to Mr Charles’s attending the lectures there is no rule or custom that forbids him. As there are none so young who attend the public-lectures, we only...
The public Papers of this Morning inform Us, that Sir Joseph Yorke left the Hague on the Morning of the twenty fourth, without taking Leave of any body, and bent his Course to London by the Way of Antwerp and Ostend. Sometime in the Month of April last, a certain British Ambassador, who had an Inclination to take a few of the Pleasures of Paris in his Way to Germany, said in that City, where I...
4To John Adams from Thomas Digges, 26 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
I have had a sight of yours of the 15th, 17, and 18th Instant and am thankful for their inclosures. Whenever any publications worth notice, come to Your hands, send them in like manner and they will find immediate insertion here. The Courant being now the most generally read paper for early American intelligence, I constantly give the American papers to the publisher of that paper, and at any...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Richard Bache, 26 December 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society I had last Week the pleasure of writing you per Ships Shelala & Franklin from this port for L’Orient by the former I sent you the Nuts & Apples, which Temple had wrote for, putting them under the care of a Mr. Erskine who went Passenger in the Ship; I hope they may arrive safe & in good order as we took particular pains to have them properly dried and...
6To Benjamin Franklin from the Chevalier de Laneuville, 26 December 1780 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society Je Suis avec un profond respect De Son Excéllence le tres humble et tres obéissant serviteur Laneuville’s verses may not have been entirely disinterested. On Dec. 31 he wrote his friend WTF about his desire to return to America to serve as a volunteer in the American army. He enclosed certificates from Washington and others about his former services, which...
7General Orders, 26 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
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8To George Washington from Sarah Franklin Bache, 26 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Soon after Mrs Blair wrote, we packed the shirts in three boxes, and delivered them to Coll Miles, with a request that he would send them to Trenton immediately, lest the river should close; where they now wait Your Excellency’s orders; there are two thousand and five in number; they would have been at Camp long before this, had not the general Sickness, which has prevailed, prevented, we wish...
9From George Washington to James Duane, 26 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
I received with much thankfulness your confidential letter of the 9th Instt, and am greatly obliged by the affectionate expressions of personal regard which are contain’d in it—an unreserved communication of sentiments, accompanying such information as you may be at liberty to give, will ever be pleasing to me, & cannot fail of being useful—In this light I view, & value your last letter; some...
10From George Washington to Major General Lafayette, 26 December 1780 (Washington Papers)
Since my letter of the 14th Instt by Majr Franks (for the Post once a Week, & travellers accidentally—are all the conveyances I have)—Your favours of the 16th & 19th are both come to hand. My Sentiments respecting your serving in the Southern Army this Winter, were fully, though concisely explained in my last. if I was to add aught to the opinion there given, it should be to wait (as we are...