From George Washington to Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 8 January 1788

To Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter

[Mount Vernon 8th Jany 1788]

I have recd your letter of the 26th of Feby accompanied by a Poem entitled Germanicus.1 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 & civilization have made any progress. As they tend to alleviate the misfortunes, and soften the sorrows of life, they will ever be respected by the humane & virtuous. I am Yr most obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington

LS, in the hand of Tobias Lear, Amsterdam: Collectie Six; LB, DLC:GW.

1. For the poem, see Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter to GW, 26 Feb. 1787, n.1.

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Title: From George Washington to Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 8 January 1788
Author: Washington, George
Recipients: Van Winter, Nicholas Simon
Van Winter, Lucretia Wilhelmina
Date: 8 January 1788

Reference

Cite as: “From George Washington to Nicholas Simon van Winter and Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, 8 January 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-06-02-0015. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 6, 1 January 1788 – 23 September 1788, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, pp. 19–20.]