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.”
3From George Washington to Joseph Mandrillon, 22 August 1785 (Washington Papers)
Thro’ the hands of Mr Van-Berkel, I had the honor to receive your letter of the first of March. It rests with a General Meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati to admit foreigners as honorary members; tho’ it has been done by many of the State Societies, where the subject proposed was a resident. The general Meeting is triennial, and will not assemble again before May 1787; but if my memory...
4To 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...
5To 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...
6From George Washington to Joseph Mandrillon, 29 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have lately received, with a grateful sensibility, the Miscellaneous Collection in verse and prose, which you have had the goodness to send to me, accompanied by your letter under date of May the 24th—for both of which I pray you to accept my warmest thanks. But, Sir, I consider you as a patriot of the world, earnestly solicitous for the freedom and prosperity of all nations. And I should do...
7To 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...
8To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, June 1789 (Washington Papers)
La modestie qui fait sans cesse la base de vos vertus, vous dira peutêtre de me refuser la grace que je vous demande: mais si Votre Excellence réflechit sur le motif de ma priere, sa justice et sa bonté lui diront quelque chose en ma faveur. Je desire posseder votre portrait, je desire enfin pouvoir contempler dans les traits de Votre Excellence, ces caracteres moraux que j’ai eu tant de...
9To George Washington from Joseph Mandrillon, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
The uncertainty which I am in whether my letters get safe to your hands or not, has determined me to embrace the opportunity which offers by Mr Theophilus Cazeneau a distinguished Citizen of this City, to confirm to you, my General, the transmission which I have had the honor to make to you of my Fragments of political literature in which I have presumed to place some of your virtues. I pray...
10From George Washington to Joseph Mandrillon, 12 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
At this late hour I do myself the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25. of October 1788—and thank you for the book, which you were so polite as to send to me entitled “Literary and Political fragments collected in a journey to Berlin.” I am Sir, Your most obedient servant LB , DLC:GW .