901To George Washington from John Fitzgerald, 12 June 1797 (Washington Papers)
I am this moment honor’d by the receipt of your letter of this date. I have had some doubts respecting the most advantageous mode of laying off your lott & have this day advised with Mr Keith about it—We agree in Opinion & I will do myself the pleasure of forwarding to you a Sketch of it as soon as I return from Loudoun which I expect will be on Saturday or Sunday next. I am fully of opinion...
902To George Washington from James McHenry, 28 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
After every exertion Mr McAlpin has been able to make, and after having procured the gold thread and a man who pretended to be fully competent to working it, he has been obliged to suspend the whole operation. The man was ignorant, and no person can be found more skilful. He has therefore prefered, rather than send you what I am sure you would not wear, sending the coat to England where it...
903To George Washington from John Langhorne [Peter Carr], 25 September 1797 (Washington Papers)
When a man of distinguished worth suffers unmerited calumny, it has the same effect as an eclipse of the sun, which serves only to make it admired the more. While it shines in unvaried light, and splendor, it shines unnoticed; but when it is obscured by some sudden and unexpected darkness, it attracts our attention, and emerges with an unusual and superior eclat. Such will be the only effect...
904To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 21 October 1799 (Washington Papers)
On my return from Trenton, the day before yesterday, I found your private letter of the 13th as well as yr public letter of the 15th instant. The News papers have probably informed you that poor Avery is dead of the yellow fever. The President has resolved to send the commissioners to France notwithstanding the change of affairs there. He is not understood to have consulted either of his...
905To George Washington from Daniel Marshal, 30 June 1799 (Washington Papers)
wishing to prove my Respectfulness to you, I Send you the inclosed Writings. I would be glad, if you had not read yet all them and most happy, if you would not send them back. I got them double. I came, with my Boy Seven Years of Age, from Magdeburgh to the United States of America, in the last Year, intending to purchase and cultivate a small Farm; but Circumstances have engaged me in Trade...
906To 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...
907To George Washington from Thomas Parker, 24 October 1799 (Washington Papers)
In Concequence of the arrangements that I had previously made I arrived here on the 22nd Instant & proceeded Immediately to Cuting Timber for Huting the Troops. on making an estimate of the Timber & Boards or plank that will be necessary for Covering the three Regiments, I find It utterly Impracticable to procure a Sufficiency, as the Rivers are Too low to Transport it by water from the upper...
908To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 3 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
I have to-day received some letters from Mr King dated in London July 28 August 1st & 5th. By them it appears there is more than ever a prospect of a new coalition against France: but a fact, and a very important one, stated by Mr King, has chiefly induced me to write. It is this. That Austria & Naples have entered into a defensive alliance for their mutual protection against France; and...
909To George Washington from Lawrence Lewis, 10 January 1799 (Washington Papers)
Tis with infinite pleasure I informe you of the daily restoration of my health, and I think I may with certainty say it is perfectly reestablished; this appears from my nearly weighing as much as ever I did in my life. I reach’d this Country by easy stages, and was fortunate enough to find the Roads equal to my wishes—From appearances the late Frost has not been as severe on this side of the...
910To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 13 January 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Clement Biddle, 13 Jan. 1799. On 20 Jan. GW wrote Biddle : “Your letter of the 13 Inst, has been duly received.”