1From George Washington to John Nicholas, 8 March 1798 (Washington Papers)
The letter which you did me the favor of writing to me under date of the 22d Ulto came safe to hand. Nothing short of the Evidence you have adduced, corroborative of intimations which I had received long before, through another channel, could have shaken my belief in the sincerity of a friendship, which I had conceived was possessed for me, by the person to whom you allude. But attempts to...
2To George Washington from John Nicholas, 22 February 1798 (Washington Papers)
I wrote you some time ago, in answer to your’s enclosing the copies of the correspondence with Mr Langhorne, that I would use my indeavour in sifting that very extraordinary, and I venture to say, infamous transaction, to the bottom; & now, agreeable to your request, have to inform you, that I have been able (from the nature of the thing) to make no further discovery of the design, than what...
3To George Washington from John Nicholas, 9 December 1797 (Washington Papers)
Your’s of the 30th Ultimo came safe to hand; and altho’, from a view of the papers inclosed, Mr Langhorne was not so direct in his scheme for extracting something from you to answer the purposes of those to whom I know him to be a servile tool; yet from the fulsome contents of his letter to you, & my knowledge of his sentiments being in direct contradiction to those contained in that letter,...
4From George Washington to John Nicholas, 30 November 1797 (Washington Papers)
I know not how to thank you sufficiently, for the kind intention of your obliging favour of the 18th instant. If the object of Mr Langhorne, who to me, in person & character, is an entire stranger, was such as you suspect, it will appear from my answer to his letter, that he fell far short of his mark. But as the writer of it seems to be better known to you, and that you may be the better...
5To George Washington from John Nicholas, 18 November 1797 (Washington Papers)
A few weeks ago a letter came to the Warren Post-Office in this County (Albemarle) from you, directed to “ Mr Langhorne ”; where it lay some days, unclaimed and unsaught for. Hearing it mentioned, I concluded it was intended for an old Gentn of that name in an adjoining County, who, I believe had been ingaged, in some capa[ci]ty or another, in what was called Braddock’s war; and had it taken...
6To George Washington from John Nicholas, 6 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
In a crisis like the present nothing can require apology which may proceed from patriotism. The object of my letter may perhaps induce a suspicion that I am governed by party views, but when I disclaim the influence of numbers I may expect so far to escape imputation as to leave my opinions in their just force—I claim your attention from the motive which determined me to make this address...