1From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 3 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 18th of June has been duly received, and gave us the first certain account of your arrival in Holland, which we received with pleasure. My family are much as you left them, and my avocations being altogether of a domestic nature, I concern myself little in matters beyond my outer Inclosures; indeed I find enough to do within them, for upon a more critical examination of my...
2From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 3 April 1797 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lear informs me the President has declined, finally, to take any part of the furniture in the Green drawing room—and that you will be requested to have the lustre in the middle of it packed up & sent round to this place. If the latter should not have taken place before this letter reaches your hands, let it be sent to Mrs Morris, who I beg will receive it as a present; and to whom I will...
3From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 8 March 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your conduct during a six Years residence in my family, having been such as to meet my full approbation & believing that a declaration to this effect would be satisfactory to yourself & justice requiring it from me, I make it with pleasure. And in full confidence that the principles of honor, integrity & benevolence wch I have reason to believe have hitherto guided your steps will still...
4From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 14 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
We have not precisely fixed the day on which to commence our Journey for Philadelphia, but I expect, if nothing unforeseen happens to prevent it, to be in that City on, or about the first day of next m⟨onth.⟩ I request therefore that every thing necessary to be done in or about the house may be compleated before we arrive: Painting especially. It is my wish to leave the tenement in good...
5From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 5 June 1796 (Washington Papers)
The letter you left with Mr Kitt—the one you wrote from Shippensburgh and another from Greenbriar Court house dated the 10th Ulto have all been recd. It can excite no ⟨illegible t⟩hat the ⟨illegible⟩ , the manner, and other cir⟨cumstanc⟩es attending your departure from this place, was not more displeasing than it was surprising: not only to me, but to every one else; and opened the door for...
6From George Washington to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 9 October 1795 (Washington Papers)
Give the enclosed letters for Govr Jay and Doctr Priestly safe conveyances, but not by Post, for this would be expensive for Pamphlets wch I believe they are, from the Board of Agriculture of which Sir John Sinclair is President they came from him with others to me. I expect to leave this for Phila. on Monday, if all are well. make enquiry for good footmen. Yours affectionately Let Colo....