1To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 11 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
The happy and illustrious qualities with which Heaven has favoured you, merit without doubt, the confidence and the Love of all your Fellow Citizens—you have fully gratified their Hope, you have Sir, even surpassed it, by drawing on your Country All the prosperity which she enjoys—Before you, Sir, we had never yet seen a Great Man Universally admired, commended, respected and enjoy his...
2To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 1 March 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Joseph Mandrillon, 1 Mar. 1785. On 22 Aug. GW wrote Mandrillon : “I had the honor to receive your letter of the first of March.”
3To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 24 October 1786 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency gave me reason to hope in your last letter, that if the Statutes of the Cincinnati permitted it, you would do me the pleasure, Sir, to propose me in the next Assembly of 1787. Permit me to repeat to your Excellency how much I shall feel myself flattered by being connected, by a new bond, to a Count[r]y & to Citizens who have had so much of my devotion & admiration. In...
4To George Washington from Mandrillon, 24 January 1787 (Washington Papers)
The 24th of last October I had the honor of sending to your Excellency a memorial containing my submission to the resolution of the approaching General Meeting of the Cincinnati. I am impressed with the most sanguine hopes, that, as it is under the Auspices of your Excellency that the proposition will be made, I shall be admitted. The Marquis de la Fayette wrote to me that I could not have a...
5To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 25 October 1788 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to send your Excellency some months ago a specimen of my last work under the title of Literary and Political Fragments during a journey to Berlin. It was to have been forwarded to you, my General, by——Boinod, bookseller in Philadelphia. I wish that the new homage which I have rendered with so much pleasure to your exalted merit, may interest you. Your Excellency will see that I...