11From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 20 April 1782 (Washington Papers)
Since my last to you from Philadelphia I have been favoured with your Letter of the 20th Ulto from New Kent. How far it is proper—or improper to delay the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians to Mr Custis’s Children I shall not take upon me to decide but this I am clear in, & beg leave again to urge it, that whenever the necessity for it arrives you shou’d take upon yourself the trust. I...
12From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 25 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lund Washington having furnished me with copies of the Accts with Mr Custis, I have drawn the whole into one view and sent it herewith, I could not Balle the Acct because of the blank Articles in it; and because there may be, on Mr Custis’s books, some charges against me of which I have no knowledge—with regard to the first, I leave it to you to extend the Sums in any manner you shall think...
13From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, 18 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 5th of last Month came safe to my hands—at this place; in the vicinity of which the Army is cortored. I am fully perswaded, from all Accts, that in Posey you have to deal with a most consummate villain; and from your own that you have pursuaded the most prudent method of managing him, and for obtaining that justice wch is due to Mr Custis’s Estate. I am clear in Sentiment...