1From George Washington to Thomas Johnson and Thomas Sim Lee, 18 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
At a meeting of the Subscribers to the Potowmac Navigation held yesterday agreeable to the Acts...
2From George Washington to Richard Sprigg, 18 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I received the Grass-seeds which you sent me sometime since, & thank you for them. This Letter...
3From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 16 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I stand indebted to you for your several favors of the 7th of March, and 12th & 19th of April....
4From George Washington to Francis Hopkinson, 16 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
In for a penny, in for a pound, is an old adage. I am so hackneyed to the touches of the Painters...
5To George Washington from Tench Tilghman, 14 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I am desired by Mr Hollyday to transmit the inclosed to you, and to request the favor of an...
6To George Washington from William Fitzhugh, 13 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
This will be hand ⟨to⟩ You by Mr Bolton. The Person I recommended to Finish your Large Room—He is...
7To George Washington from John Harvie, 13 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
You will receive with this Letter a copy of the previous Title Law that pass’d in the year 1779...
8To George Washington from Lafayette, 13 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
My Correspondance With You Will this time Be in two Volumes and Young Mr Adams, John Adams’s Son,...
9To George Washington from John Swan, 13 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
When I was in England my friends Messrs Harrison Ansley & Co. of London gave me Charge of a power...
10To George Washington from Jaquelin Ambler, 12 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Still flattering ourselves with an expectation that some encouragement would be given here to the...
11From George Washington to Barbier de La Serre, 12 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
The letter which you did me the honor to write to me the 20th of last month, I found at this...
12To George Washington from Thomas Marshall, 12 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 3d Inst. I receiv’d by my Son & will with the greatest pleasure execute the...
13To George Washington from Lafayette, 11 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
This is not the only letter You Will Get from me By this packet, But as the opportunity is Safe,...
14To George Washington from David Humphreys, 10 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honor to receive by the last Packet your favor dated in Feby last I have been...
15To George Washington from Christopher Richmond, 10 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Not having had any communication with the persons appointed by the Act of Assembly of Maryland to...
16To George Washington from W. Symmes, 10 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have considered well the terms your Excellency mentioned at your sisters as the best you could...
17To George Washington from Charles Vancouver, 10 May 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Charles Vancouver, 10 May. GW wrote Vancouver on 30 June : “Your favor of...
18To George Washington from William Grayson, 4–8 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have recieved your letter of the 25th of Aprill, for which I am much oblig’d to you; I am sorry...
19To George Washington from Jacob Read, 8 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Mr Charles Philips who does me the Honour to charge himself with the delivery of the present...
20To George Washington from Ruthey Jones, 7 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Last December twelve months—I had the honour of receiveing your Excellencys’ Letter by major...
21To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 7 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
This will be delivered to you by the honorable Mr Sitgreaves a very worthy delegate to Congress...
22To George Washington from William Grayson, 5 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Mr King one of the delegates of Massachusets bay, & a gentleman of great worth has particularly...
23To George Washington from Henry Knox, 5 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
It has been my intention ever since I have been in this City which is fourteen days to have...
24To George Washington from Thomas Bibby, 4 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed letter and a parcell which accompanies it was entrusted to my care by Sr Edward...
25To George Washington from Robert Howe, 4 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
The Bearer Mr Sitgreaves is a Delegate in Congress for the State of North Carolina, the Respect...
26To George Washington from Richard Henry Lee, 3 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have long had a letter prepared for you in answer to your last favor which I have kept for the...
27From George Washington to Thomas Marshall, 3 May 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Thomas Marshall, 3 May. On 12 May Marshall wrote GW : “Your favor of the 3d...
28To George Washington from William Fitzhugh, 2 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
My delay to Address you on the the subject of Mr Bolton, & his to wait on you before the 25 ulto...
29To George Washington from Jean-Baptiste de Montesquieu, 2 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
My Son has Order’d me to Send to your Excellency One Hundered & Twenty Bottles of White Wine,...
30Resolutions of the Dismal Swamp Company, 2 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
That the money, which can at present be raised, be put into the hands of some proper person, and...
31To George Washington from Thomas Ridout, 1 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
By return of my Brig to Alexandria I have taken the liberty of sending you a few Cases of wine...
32To George Washington from Henry Hollyday, 30 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
At the instance of my Neice Miss Harriot Rebecca Anderson, the youngest Daughter, and, now, only...
33To George Washington from Thomas Newton, 27 April 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Thomas Newton, 27 April. GW wrote Newton on 3 Sept. : “I have suffered...
34To George Washington from Lyonel Bradstreet, 26 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
It is with Pleasure that I now forward your Excellency a Case which was delivered to my Care in...
35To George Washington from John Baylor, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I am just returned from Richmond, where by appointment, I was to have met Mr Dandridge and to...
36From George Washington to William Grayson, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I will not let your favor of the fifteenth, for which I thank you, go unacknowledged, tho’ it is...
37To George Washington from Nathanael Greene, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Some little time ago Capt. Gunn formerly an officer in the horse sent me a challenge to fight him...
38To George Washington from John Murray & Co., 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Agreable to your request have sent you twelve yard of the Calicoe you pick’d out when up here,...
39To George Washington from Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I recieved at Paris, the letter Your Excellency did me the honor of addressing to me, in behalf...
40To George Washington from Samuel Powel, 25 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Tho’ I am apprehensive that you may be fatigued with Letters of Recommendation, yet I cannot...
41To George Washington from John Harvie, 22 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Upon my Researches into the Ordinances of Convention and Acts of Assembly to see if I could...
42To George Washington from Charles Thomson, 22 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I received yesterday your letter of the 5. And as the subject therein referred to belongs to the...
43To George Washington from William Washington, 21 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Major George Washington arriv’d at this place in January & has favor’d me with his company ever...
44From George Washington to Mathew Carey, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 30th Ulto —If it should ever be in my power to render you any...
45From George Washington to George Clinton, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I promised you a letter by the last Post, but it was not in my power to fulfill it, business not...
46To George Washington from Barbier de la Serre, 20 April 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Barbier de la Serre, 20 April. On 12 May GW wrote Barbier de la Serre :...
47To George Washington from Otho Holland Williams, 20 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have not had the honor of a line, or message from you since I forwarded, to Mount Vernon, the...
48To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 19 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Since my last I paid Mr Claypoole your account for Advertisements for which the receipt is...
49To George Washington from Francis Hopkinson, 19 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
Encouraged by the friendly Notice with which you have upon every Occasion been pleased to honour...
50To George Washington from Robert Morris, 17 April 1785 (Washington Papers)
I received in due time the Letter you were so obliging as to write me of the 1st February and am...