1From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 30 June 1786 (Washington Papers)
Better late than never, is an adage not less true, or less to be respected, because it is old. The letter I am now about to write to you, ought to have been written many a day ago; but however strange it may seem, it is nevertheless true, that I have not had leizure (though more than two years have elapsed since my return to what the world calls retirement) to overhaul papers, & inspect...
2From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 25 June 1786 (Washington Papers)
Since I had the honor of writing to you in November last, I have been favoured with your letters of the 23d of June in the last, and 23d of Jany in the present year. The first was handed to me by Doctr Baynham, and the other by Mr James Bloxham. Your conjectures respecting the fate of our letters, are, I am persuaded, too well founded. Such frequent miscarriages would not have resulted from...
3From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 10 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
Inclosed you have a copy of my last; since which nothing has occurred worthy of observation, except that in this part of the Country our Crops—particularly of Indian Corn, have suffered exceedingly by a drought in July & august, and a storm in September. As I am in the habit of giving you trouble, I will add a little more to what my last, I fear, may have occasioned. The two youngest children...
4From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 30 June 1785 (Washington Papers)
When I wrote you in Feby last, I intended to have followed it with a letter of earlier date than the present; but one cause succeeding another, has prevented it ’till now. I proceeded to a diligent search for the paper requested in your favor of the 23d of August last year, & after examining every bundle, & indeed despairing of success, it occurred to me that your Accot with Lord Fairfax might...
5From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 27 February 1785 (Washington Papers)
In a letter of old date, but lately received, from the Countess of Huntington, she refers me to a letter which her Ladyship says you obligingly undertook to forward to me: never having received one from her to the purport she mentions, there can be no doubt but that this letter with your cover to it, have met the fate of some of mine to you; as I have wrote several within the last twelve or...
6From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 10 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
With very sincere pleasure I receiv’d your favor of the 26th March—It came to hand a few days ago, & gave me the satisfaction of learning that you enjoyed good health, and that Mrs Fairfax had improved in hers. there was nothing wanting in this Letter to give compleat satisfaction to Mrs Washington & myself, but some expression to induce us to believe you would once more become our...
7From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 11 March 1778 (Washington Papers)
Immediately on my appointment to the command of the American Army and arrival at Cambridge (near Boston) in the year 1775, I informed you of the impracticability of my longer continuing to perform the duties of a friend by having an eye to the conduct of your Collector & Steward, as my absence from Virginia would not only withdraw every little attention I otherwise might have given to your...
8From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 26 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
In my hurry, Yesterday, I forgot the principal thing I had in view, when I sat down to write to you, and that was, to inform you of the indispensable necessity you must now be under of appointing another Attorney. The nature of the business I am now engaged in (which alone is full sufficient to engross the time and attention of any one Man) and the distance I am removed from your business, as...
9From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 25 July 1775 (Washington Papers)
On the other side you will receive a Copy of my last, dated at Philadelphia the 31st of May, and to which I refer. I shall say very little in this Letter, for two Reasons; first, because I have received no Letter from you since the one dated in June 1774, and therefore (having wrote often) can have nothing to answer; but, principally, because I do not know whether it may ever get to your...
10From George Washington to George William Fairfax, 31 May 1775 (Washington Papers)
Since my last (dated about the first of April) I have received from Mr Craven Peyton the Sum of £193.6.10 (as you may see by the inclosed Account) with which, and the Balance of the former Money, I now remit you the following Bills; to wit, one drawn by Mr Thomas Contee on Mr Mollison, for £40 Sterling, and another drawn by Lyonel Bradstreet on Mr William Tippell of London for the like Sum...