1From George Washington to George Washington Motier Lafayette, 22 November 1795 (Washington Papers)
It was with sincere pleasure I received your letter from Boston; and with a heart of affection I welcome you to this country. Considerations of a political nature, added to those which were assigned by yourself or Mr Frestal of a sort more private but not less interesting to your friends left no doubt in my mind of the propriety of your remaining incog. until some plan advantageous to yourself...
2From George Washington to George Washington Motier Lafayette, 28 February 1796 (Washington Papers)
My desire to see you, is such, that I request that you and Mr Festal, will make me a visit about the first of April at this City; by that time the Weather will be settled, the roads good, and the travelling pleasant. Colo. Hamilton will be the channel thro’ which this letter will be conveyed to you; and my wish is that you and Mr Festal would come by the way of New York to this City, and there...
3From George Washington to George Washington Motier Lafayette, 31 March 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 28th instt was received yesterday. The enclosures which accompanied it, evidence much discretion; and your conduct therein meets my entire approbation. In the early part of this month, I put a letter into the hands of Colo. Hamilton, inviting you to this place; and expected, until your letter of the above date was received, to have embraced you, under my own roof, tomorrow...
4From George Washington to George Washington Motier Lafayette, 5 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
With that pleasure which I shall always feel at hearing from you, or of any thing which may contribute to your happiness, I received your several letters from New York—dated in October, and that of the 2d of November from Sea, by Mr Latimer. If my best vows would have contributed to a prosperous Voyage, and a happy meeting with your Parents and Sisters in France, both must have happened to the...
5From George Washington to George Washington Motier Lafayette, 25 December 1798 (Washington Papers)
Having written a long letter to General La Fayette I shall write but a short one to you; and it shall relate principally, if not altogether, to domestic concerns. At the time you left this country you could not, less than I did, believe that in the course of events any occurrence could arise, which would again take me from the walks of Mount Ver[no]n—But the injuries we have received, and are...