33391To George Washington from Jedediah Huntington, 2 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Jedediah Huntington, 2 Dec. 1778. On 14 Dec., GW wrote Huntington : “Your favor of the 2d Inst. meet me on the road to this place.”
33392To George Washington from Henry Laurens, 2 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor of writing to Your Excellency on the 28th Ultimo, and of presenting to Congress your favor of the 23d on the 30th. Last Night Mr Dodge delivered me Your Excellency’s Letter of the 26th which shall be laid before Congress this Morning. This will be accompanied by the undermentioned Papers. 1. An Act of Congress of the 30th November for the more speedily and effectually...
33393To George Washington from William Malcom, 2 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from William Malcom, 2 Dec. 1778. On 7 Dec. , GW acknowledged Malcom’s “two favors of the 2d & 5th Inst.”
33394To George Washington from John Sullivan, 2 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Sullivan, 2 Dec. 1778. On 20 Dec., GW wrote Sullivan : “I have your two letters of the 2d and 7th Int. now before me.”
33395From George Washington to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 2 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
By the inclosed you will perceive that the troops at Rhode Island are in extreme distress for want of Flour. If a supply of that Article is not already upon the way, you will, I hope, take every measure to have it thrown in before the Roads are in a worse state than they are at present—As I have not Copies of the inclosed be pleased to take care of them & return them. I am Sir Yr most obt...
33396To George Washington from Lund Washington, 2 December 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Lund Washington, 2 Dec. 1778. On 17 Dec., GW wrote Lund Washington that he had received “your Letters of the 25th of last month and 2d of this.”
33397Suppositions and Conjectures on the Aurora Borealis, [before 7 December 1778] (Franklin Papers)
(I) and (II) AD (draft): Library of Congress; D : Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France; two copies: Library of Congress On December 3, 1778, at six o’clock in the evening, the sky lit up with what physicist Pierre Bertholon described as the most spectacular auroral display in recent memory. Huge patches of vivid red flashed in all corners of the heavens; columns of color and bursts of light...
33398John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 December 1778 (Adams Papers)
Your two Letters of the 29th of Sept. and 10th of Oct. gave me more Concern than I can express. I will not say a Fit of the Spleen. But last night I got a Letter from Mr. Vernon, in which he acquaints me with the Arrival of the Boston, at Portsmouth. There were Letters from me on Board of the Boston, Providence or Ranger, and there was all the Things mentioned in the Memorandum, you gave me,...
33399John Adams to Cotton Tufts, 3 December 1778 (Adams Papers)
I have the Pleasure of yours of the 5th. of August, for which I am much obliged to you. It is a great Satisfaction to me to be informed, of the Particulars which are enumerated in your Letter, upon which the Happiness of the People and their Exertions in the Cause so much depend. I am not able to inform you of any News, except what the News Papers contain. Those inclosed, contain some Things...
33400From John Adams to the President of the Congress, 3 December 1778 (Adams Papers)
I have the Honour to inclose to Congress, the latest News Papers: As they contain the Speech at the Opening of Parliament, and Some of the Debates in both Houses upon the Addresses in Answer to it, they are of very great Importance. I learn by Some Newspapers, and private Letters that an opinion has been prevalent in America, that the Ennemy intended to withdraw from the united States, and...