1From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 21 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
Your Letter came to my hands last Night. I have wrote to Majr Lee on the subject—when his answer arrives you will hear further from me on the subject of it. I am. ADf , DLC:GW ; Varick transcript , DLC:GW . George Augustine Washington (c.1758–1793) was the oldest son of GW’s brother Charles. He served from September to November 1777 as a second lieutenant in Col. William Grayson’s Additional...
2From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 25 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
The last Post brought me your letter of the 10th from Mount Vernon—I am sorry to find by it, that you had not got rid of your fever—the cool weather will, probably prove your best physician and this is fast approaching. The Inclosed Letters from the Marquis De la Fayette came under cover to me—They were brought by Baron Viominel, Duke Lauzen, Marq: Laval & others; who were driven on shore in...
3From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 14 November 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have received your Letter of the 23d Ulto from Berkeley; & am sorry to find that your fever & pain in the Breast still continues—If they should not have left you ’ere this gets to hand, you had, in my opinion, best take a trip to the Southward—Doctr Craik advises one to the West Indies, if there is the least appearance of the disorder falling upon your Lungs. the only objection I see to this...
4From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 18 August 1783 (Washington Papers)
If my Letter from Albany by the Count del Vermé has reached you, it would inform you that I had just made the tour of the Northern & Western parts of this State, & had got that far on my return home. Accordingly, the day following I arrived at this place & found your Aunt but just recovering from a Fever & severe Cholic which had reduced her much. Since then she has had a relapse, and is at...
5From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 11 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
My last letter to you, was dispatched without the enclosed; wch was forgot at the time of Sealing it. Since then, I have received your letter of the 23d of August, & am very sorry to find by it that you still continue so much indispos’d. Doctr Craik will write to you by this opportunity, & will, I presume, give you his opinion of the propriety of giving the Air & Climate of Rhode Island a...
6From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 26 November 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have received two letters from you at Barbadoes, & three from Burmuda. The last informing me of your intention to embark for Charleston, which I much approve of. I have not wrote to you since you left Mount Vernon, first because I did not know where to direct to you & next because I was on the Western waters when your first letters from Burmuda came to this place. My best wishes however have...
7From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 8 December 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Augustine Washington, 8 Dec. 1784. On 25 Feb. 1785 George Augustine wrote to GW : “I received with inexpressible pleasure Your two friendly Letters of the 26th of Novr, and 8th of Decr.”
8From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 6 January 1785 (Washington Papers)
As soon as I got your letter announcing your intention of spending the Winter at Charleston I wrote you by Post, under cover to Colo. Willm Washington—& sometime after by Mr Laurens—by whom also I forwarded the articles of clothing you desired might be sent to you—there can be little doubt (as the Post now goes regularly) of both getting to hand. I need not therefore repeat any part of the...
9From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 24 December 1785 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to George Augustine Washington, 24 Dec. 1785. On 3 Feb. 1786 George Augustine Washington acknowledged receipt of “Your favor of the 24th Decr.”
10From George Washington to George Augustine Washington, 24 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
The extreme heaviness of the roads occasioned by the late rains, and gullied situation, prevented my getting further than this place yesterday. and now I am waiting a while for a cessation of rain, rather than to take Joe out in it. It did not occur to me when I was making out my Memorandum for you, that the cause which prevented Morris from proceeding in his field for experiments, might not...