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The enclosed is Copy of a Letter I have just received from Sir Guy Carleton I take an early Opportunity to transmit it to your Excellency, for the Information & Consideration of Congress. With great Esteem & Respect I have the Honor to be sir Your Excellency’s Most Obedient and most humble Servant DNA : Item 152, Letters from George Washington, PCC—Papers of the Continental Congress.
I have the Honor to transmit to Congress, a Copy of a joint Letter from Sir Guy Carleton and Admiral Digby to me, which accompanied the enclosed Treaty signed at Paris the 30th of Novemr which I take the earliest opportunity to forward, agreeable to their Desire. With the highest Esteem & Respect I have the Honor to be, Sir, Your Excellencys Most Obedient and Most humble Servant DNA : Item...
I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency for the observation of Congress a Copy of a Letter which I have written to Sir Guy Carleton in consequence of their Resolutions of the 15th instant—Also a Copy of Sir Guy’s Reply agreable to which I expect to meet him at Tappan, on the 5th of May. the Proceedings & Result of this Interview so far as shall be necessary I shall have the honor to...
The many & important matters which pressed upon me while you were in Camp, prevented my consulting you on an affair which I have a good deal at heart, and which I wished to make the subject of a personal, rather than an epistolary conversation—To come to the point. It is a matter of great importance to have early & good intelligence of the enemys strength & motions—and as far as possible,...
I was upon the point of closing the packet which affords a cover to this letter, when the Baron de Steuben arrived & put your obliging favor of the 17th Into my hands. I read it with much pleasure & gratitude, and beg you to accept my sincere thanks for the trouble you have taken to communicate the several matters therein mentioned; many parts of which, till then, were altogether new to me....
The inclosed is a Copy of a Letter which I have this moment received from Sir Guy Carleton, in reply to mine of the 6th of May to him. I transmit it to your Excellency for the Information of Congress. I shall wait the Instructions of Congress before I answer Sir Guy respecting the Evacuation of Penobscot, in preference to his attendg to that of NYork; and will conform myself wholly to their...
I inclose you a copy of a letter of the 23 Ulto forwarded by express: to which I have received no answer. Col. Johnson refusing the appointment, Congress have since nominated as Commissary of prisoners Major Beatty. I have forwarded him their resolve and desired his immediate attendance at Head Quarters. I must again urge the ⟨great n⟩ecessity of your hastening here with all possible dispatch....
The copy of my Letter of the 21st of April to His Excellency Sir Guy Carleton, with a Copy of his reply to me, which I had the Honor to transmit to your Excellency, will have informed Congress, that the 5th of this Month was agreed upon between us for an Interview at this place. In Consequence of this Arrangement I arrived here on the 4th. The Contingents of a Water passage in a frigate,...
I am honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 11th instant—I thank you for the information communicated therein, and shall take measures for forwarding the Letter which was enclosed, by an early and safe conveyance. In conformity to the pleasure of Congress, expressed in their Resolve of the 8th of Novr I wrote to Sir Guy Carleton on the 20th. A Copy of that Letter, together with Copies of...
I had not the pleasure of receiving your polite & friendly letter of the 4th of Jany till within these few days, & of course had no oppertunity of acknowleging it sooner. I find myself extremely flattered by the strain of sentiment in your Sisters composition—But request it as a favor of you to present my best respects to her, and assure her, that however I may feel inferior to the praize, she...