1From George Washington to Moustier, 7 February 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have received the letter which your Excellency did me the honor to address to me on the 24th of January, and take the earliest occasion of expressing my warmest acknowledgments for your favourable opinion as well as offering my sincerest congratulations on your safe arrival in this country. I am at the same time to return you my thanks for the trouble you had the goodness to take in...
2From George Washington to Moustier, 26 March 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have received the letter wch your Excellency did me the honor of addressing to me by the hand of Mr Madison. While I am highly gratified with the justice you do me in appreciating the friendly sentiments I entertain for the French Nation; I cannot avoid being equally astonished & mortifyed in learning that you had met with any subject of discontent or inquietude since your arrival in...
3From George Washington to Moustier, 17 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
In the letter which I did myself the honor to address to your Excellency on the 26th of last March, I intimated that as soon as I should have obtained more particular information concerning the commercial intercourse between France and the United States, I would most willingly communicate the result. Ill prepared as I still am to treat of a subject, so complicated in its nature and so...
4From George Washington to Moustier, 18 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
It was not until the last evening, that I had the pleasure of receiving the letter which your Excellency, did me the honor to write to me, on the 5th of this Month, from Boston. So that I could not have an opportunity of returning my acknowledgment, before the Post which will depart the 21st from Alexandria, to the Northward. I hope, however, it will be in time to meet you at New York, or on...
5From George Washington to Moustier, 15 December 1788 (Washington Papers)
I am now taking up my pen to acknowledge the receipt of the two letters, which your Excellency did me the honor of writing to me on the 21st & 26th of last Month. While I request you to receive my thanks for the Memoirs on the trade to the West Indies, for the memorandum concerning the different kinds of Coal Tar, & for the desertation on Cements proper for the preservation of perishable...
6From George Washington to Moustier, 25 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
What circumstances there may be existing between our two nations, to which you allude on account of their peculiarity, I know not. But as those nations are happily connected in the strictest ties of Amity, not less by inclination & interest, than by the solemnity of a Treaty; and as the United States are too remote from Europe to take any share in the local politics of that Continent; I had...
7From George Washington to Moustier, 2 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The sentiments expressed in your letter of yesterday are perfectly consonant to my ideas of propriety. I never doubted that you was animated by motives of the purest regard for my Country & myself. On the other part, you may rest assured, I shall always be happy in occasions of demonstrating the sincerity of friendship for your Sovereign & Nation: being with sentiments of real consideration...
8From George Washington to Moustier, 1 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive your letters of the 11th of May and 12th of July last, together with the flattering mark of your and Madame de Brehan’s regard, which accompanied the former, for which, and for the obliging satisfaction you express on the restoration of my health, I beg you and her to accept my grateful acknowledgments. A short relaxation from public business, and an...
9From George Washington to Moustier, 5 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have had the pleasure to receive the letter which you were so good as to write to me from Berlin on the 26 of April. The favorable sentiments which you express of our country and its councils are very agreeable to me—The kind interest which you take in my personal happiness excites a grateful sensibility. You will learn with pleasure that events have realised the most sanguine hopes of our...