1To George Washington from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 24 April 1781 (Washington Papers)
My Father will have the honor to acknowledge by this conveyance the favor of your letter of the 24th Ulto & to return his thanks with which mine are tendered for the signal mark of your Excellency’s Friendship notified thro’ a paragraph of it, an additional one to the many I have experienced and shall ever retain a proper sense of. Having been led to believe (tho’ only from report) that Genl...
2To George Washington from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 10 July 1786 (Washington Papers)
Upon a Visit to my Father some little time ago I was informed by him you wanted a number of Ewe Lambs and as there was a prospect of my being able to make a considerable collection in my neighbourhood I promised to make enquiry on my return and address you upon the subject—this Letter is to comply with my promise to my Father and to execute a pleasing duty to you —If I had fortunately been...
3To George Washington from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 19 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
From the Friendship with which you have been pleased to honor me, and your well known regard for my Father and his Family, I should think myself unpardonable not to make an early and candid communication to your Excellency of the business which has been the occasion of my visit to this City—You are Sir sufficiently acquainted with the circumstance of my having (shortly after parting with your...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 25 February 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Indian Queen, 25 Feb. 1793 . The enclosed will explain his embarrassing situation and the expedient adopted for his relief. The success of his lottery entirely depends on the exertions of relatives and friends as well as the support of a “Humane Public.” He would patiently accept his disappointment if only his happiness were at stake, but he can leave no means untried when his beloved wife and...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 25 March 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to my promise I cover you as many Grains of the Cumberland Corn as can be conveniently conveyed in a Letter and I hope they will reach you safe. I have also sealed up very carefully about a Pint of the same Corn and shall request our Friend John Mason to forward it to some Gentleman in Fredericksburg of whom I will give you notice in a P.S. to this Letter that you may direct any of...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 19 May 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to accept my thanks for your favor of the 9th. ulto. and for the peas which it notifies having been lodged for me with my friend John T. Mason. I shall receive them in a few days and will pay every attention to their Culture. I have lately met with some of the same species of Corn tho’ in a much purer state than what I sent you but the Season being too far advanced to admit a chance...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 20 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been duly favored with your Letter of the 4th. Inst. and beg you to accept my thanks for the various interesting communications which it contains. I shall certainly avail myself of the information which you have been polite enough to give me on the subject of News papers. Bache’s we already have, to this I will add Smiths when he begins to publish. We receive as you surmize the...
8Enclosure II: Peregrine Fitzhugh to the Rights of Man, 15 September 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. F— takes the Liberty of informing the Public that the report contained in a Quere published in this Paper of the 4th. of July last of Mr. Jeffersons having written him “that it was the intention of Mr. Adams and his party at the call of Congress to have declared war against France if there had been a greater majority” is without foundation and that the Gentlemen who are said to have...
9To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 15 October 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
I took the Liberty of thanking you for your favor of the 4th. of June in a Long Letter directed to you at Philadelphia but having seen in the papers a few days after an account of your departure from thence for Virginia I had then my doubts and am still under an uncertainty whether it arrived in time to find you there or whether it ever got to your hands. As that Letter contained some...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Peregrine Fitzhugh, 2 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
The occasion will I hope be a sufficient apology for this Letter which might on any other be deemed presumptuous and obtrusive. From the last Accounts we have received the aspect of our public affairs in which are materially involv’d those of this part of the Country appears to be getting every day more gloomy; and altho I say and do every thing in my power to check the growing Fears of my...