401To George Washington from William Linn, 30 May 1798 (Washington Papers)
Excuse the liberty I take in inclosing to you a discourse delivered on the late fast day. The reasons for the publication, in the manner which it appears, you will see in the preface. To confirm some of my sentiments, I have quoted, in the notes, a few passages from your address on your resignation; & I was sorry that more could not be conveniently introduced from a performance immortal as...
402To George Washington from Charles Little, 27 November 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Charles Little, 27 Nov. 1799. GW wrote Little on 28 Nov. : “Mr Johnston delivered me your favour of yesterday.”
403To George Washington from James Lloyd, 4 July 1798 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency’s favors of the 25 and 27 Ulto came duly to hand and I beg you to accept my sincere thanks for them. You will have heard before this reaches you, that you were, yesterday, by the unanimous vote of the Senate, appointed Lieutenant General & Commander in Chief of the Armies of America. To all, but the few wicked men who, for base & selfish purposes, wish to subject our Country to...
404To George Washington from James Lloyd, 28 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
I take the liberty to forward to you, under cover with this, Mr Gerry’s correspondence with M. Talleyrand and the report of the Secretary of State, on the transactions relative to the U. States and France. I did myself the honor to write you a long letter, in the beginning of last July, in which I gave you, agreeably to your request, the best information I was able to procure, of the...
405To George Washington from James Lloyd, 6 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose a message from the President of the U. States which was communicated to both Houses, yesterday. Private letters have been received by the vessel that brought the dispatches from our Envoys which mention that General Pinckney and General Marshall intended leaving France and that Mr Gerry had determined to remain notwithstanding the pressing remonstrances of...
406To George Washington from James Lloyd, 18 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to receive your favor, dated the 13 Inst:, yesterday. I enclose a handbill, this moment from the press, by which you will see that Mr Marshall has arrived at New York. I sincerely wish that Mr Pinckney may not have cause to repent of having gone to the South of France. Mr Gerry remains at Paris. He has written a letter in which he declares that he does not consider himself...
407To George Washington from James Lloyd, 21 June 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have now the honor to forward to you the letter of Talleyrand to our Envoys with their answer. Mr Marshall arrived here on tuesday evening and was received in a manner highly pleasing to him & all the true friends of America. The information we have received from him is, that a great majority of the French nation wish for the reestablishment of monarchy but that they are disavowd and...
408To George Washington from David Longworth, 21 August 1797 (Washington Papers)
Perhaps your Excellency will be disposed to pardon, & think it a laudable ambition, which has stimulated me to endeavor to make my publication appear worthy your patronage—The whole of the materials & execution of the edition of Telemachus, now presented you, are entire american, my mode of hot pressing is on an entire new principle from that practised in Europe —under these considerations I...
409To George Washington from Nathaniel Luff, Jr., 3 March 1798 (Washington Papers)
I am a second time called to address a few lines to Thee, awakened in the night season, or previous to the dawn of day, for that purpose, (I believe,) the sentiments in the first instance that impressed my mind, not being inscribed on paper, are lost. I have in the second instance been more attentive to the impulse, (I will not call it divine) but am as to myself, fully satisfied of that...
410To George Washington from Jean Luzac, 30 September 1797 (Washington Papers)
If my use of the English language to write it with purity, was extensive enough that I might dare to approach by means of it to a person as illustrious by his actions as General Washington, & who writes himself in that language with a force & an energy so difficult to express, I should not take the liberty of speaking to you an idiom which is more familiar to me. never Sir should I have even...