1To George Washington from Noah Webster, 18 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
If the request I am now to make should need any apology but such as will naturally be suggested by its own importance, I am sure it will find it in your candour. The favourable reception of my grammatical publications in the northern States, has induced me to offer them for sale in the Southern; and I am happy to find they meet with the approbation of those literary Gentlemen, with whom I have...
2From George Washington to Noah Webster, 30 July 1785 (Washington Papers)
I received your letter of the 19th Instt. Being convinced from the respectable characters whose names are prefixed to your Gramatical Institute, as well as from the cursory examination I have had it in my power to bestow on the Books, of the judicious execution, and usefulness of the Work; it would give me pleasure if I could be instrumental, in any degree, towards the introduction of it to...
3To George Washington from Noah Webster, 16 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
I have just returned from Richmond where I was happy enough to succeed in my application to the Legislature. For this success I acknowledge myself indebted, in some measure, to your politeness. Should the same success attend me in the States of Delaware & New York, my whole plan will be accomplished; & if on my return to the Northern States, I find myself in tolerably easy circumstances, I...
4From George Washington to Noah Webster, 18 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 16th, with others, were put into my hands yesterday in Alexandria; but being engaged at the time I did not open them until I returned home in the evening; or, I would have sought an opportunity of conversing with you on the subject of it, whilst I was in Town. On the footing you have placed your offer, though I feel myself obliged by it, I am unable, from the indecision of...
5To George Washington from Noah Webster, 18 December 1785 (Washington Papers)
Yours of this date, with the Pamphlet, is just handed me, by which I acknowledge myself obliged. The determinations of the States, to which my application will be made, will be known next month. These are however not essential to my present plans. My own resolutions on the subject can be formed as soon as I can visit New England; probably before you can recieve an answer from Europe, or...
6To George Washington from Noah Webster, 31 March 1786 (Washington Papers)
I am happy in the opportunity, which Mr Lee’s politeness has offered, of presenting Your Excellency a copy of Mr Dwights Poem. Whatever faults may be found in this performance, its merit cannot fail to recommend it to every friend of America & of virtue. I flatter myself that in three or four weeks I shall be able to furnish you with an Instructor, as several Gentlemen will assist me in...
7From George Washington to Noah Webster, 17 April 1786 (Washington Papers)
Mr Lee, yesterday evening, gave me the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 31st Ulto, and the book with wch it was accompanied—for both, I pray you to accept my thanks. The author, some time ago, had the goodness to send me two copies of the poem. I am equally obliged to you, Sir, for your kind assurance of looking out for an Instructor for the little folks of this family; but believe I...
8To George Washington from Noah Webster, 17 October 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Noah Webster, 17 Oct. 1787. On 4 Nov. GW wrote: “I have received your letter of the 17th ulto.”
9From George Washington to Noah Webster, 4 November 1787 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 17th ulto, together with your remarks on the proposed Constitution; for which you will please to accept my best acknowledgments—and the assurance of being Sir AL[S] , NN : Washington Collection. Letter not found. Webster published in Philadelphia on 17 Oct. his 55–page pamphlet entitled An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution...
10To George Washington from Noah Webster, 14 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
Having engaged to write, for Mr Morse’s Geography, a sketch of the History of the late war, I take the liberty of making an enquiry respecting a fact which I am told is commonly misrepresented, & which perhaps no person but the commander in chief of the late armies in America can set right. An opinion, Sir, is very general, that the junction of the French fleet & the American armies at York...