1From George Washington to Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 30 March 1785 (Washington Papers)
The honor which your Pen has done me, so far exceeds my merits, that I am at a loss for words to express my sense of the compliment it conveys. The Poem, in celebration of my exertions to establish the rights of my Country, was forwarded to me from Philadelphia by Mr Vogels, to whom I should have been happy to have offered civilities, but he did not give me the pleasure of seeing him. At best,...
2From George Washington to Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 5 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
To find that the letter which I had the honor of writing to you on the 30th of March last, in acknowledgement of the Poem you had the goodness to send me through the hands of Mr Vogels, has never reached you, gives me pain. I now enclose a copy of it, presuming that the original must have miscarried from my having addressed it to the care of that Gentleman at Philadelphia when, possibly, he...
3From George Washington to Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 8 January 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have recd your letter of the 26th of Feby accompanied by a Poem entitled Germanicus. I consider your sending the latter to me as a mark of polite attention which merits my warmest acknowledgment, and I beg you to accept my thanks for that, as well as for the many obliging expressions in your letter. The Muses have always been revered in every age, & in all Countries where letters &...