1To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 5 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your affectionate favor of the 24th ultimo, came to my hands a few days ago, I trust the warmest acknowledgements of gratitude & affection will not be less acceptable to you, because offered by an afflicted heart; it has been the will of God to visit me with heavy causes of sorrow, & not to receive them as such, woud argue an insensiblity to his dispensations—Yet do not think my dear Sir, that...
2To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 17 September 1794 (Washington Papers)
I have had the happiness to hear by my Aunts last letters, that you have entirely recoverd the indisposition you were afflicted with, while at Mount Vernon, & also that the cancerous appearance on your face is very much releived; none, I assure you can be more sincere in their congratulations on this subject than myself—The weather has been so very seasonable in this part of the country, that...
3To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 21 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
I did myself the pleasure of forwarding to you last week the reports of the Overseers, & an account of the weather —by a letter I have received from my Aunt, I understand that Mr Lewis is in Virginia, but as he is not yet come to this place, I shall again send the reports to you by tuesdays stage. so entirely occupied as I am conscious you are with publick business, it gives me pain to call...
4To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 7 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I had the pleasure to receive your favor of the 28th of July on thursday morning —the melancholy event of Mrs Lears death filld me with the deepest concern, a woman so amiable & pleasing in her manners as I have always understood she was, must be a loss to all her acquaintence, & to her family an irreparable one. the day after my last letter to you, I had the pleasure of receiving yours of the...
5To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 22 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
My Aunt expecting soon to receive a summons to attend you in Philadelphia, I take the liberty by her hand to offer a request to your consideration, one however which I almost fear all the friendship you have shewn me, will not justify me in making but confiding as I do, in your judgement & in your kindness, I trust you will tell me, if you think me wrong, & rather ascribe my errors to...
6To George Washington from Frances Bassett Washington, 28 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have had the happiness to receive your favors of the 7th & 11th instants —the first did not come to my hands, for near a week after the usual time—Mr Dandridge was unacquainted with my short visit to Eltham, & sent my letters to this place, where I found them on my return —I shoud be very much concernd for this detention, if I had not reason to beleive that my last letters to my Aunt, woud...
7From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 17 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your letter—dated Hanover March 5th—and was happy to hear that yourself and the Children were well. It is not by any means a wish of mine that, you should come to Mount Vernon next Month on account of my short visit to that place. It was merely on your own account, and that of the Estate, that I suggested the measure; more indeed for consideration than by way of advice,...
8From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 7 March 1793 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Frances Bassett Washington, 7 Mar. 1793. Frances Bassett Washington wrote GW on 28 Mar. , “I have had the happiness to receive your favors of the 7th & 11th instants.”
9From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 28–29 July 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of the 21st came to hand on Thursday last and it does not appear that you have yet received my letter of the l0th of June, addressed to you in Berkeley—& probably never may, I now send you the press copy of it. This you will perceive is on one side only of the Paper, and dull; but where most so, is brightened with Ink. You, better than I, can answer the questions contained in your...
10From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 10 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Aunt has lately received a letter from you, to which an answer was given about a week ago. As this answer, so far as it respected the renting of the estate in Berkley, of which you are possessed, was dictated by me, in a hurry, I will now give you my ideas more at large on that subject; although they will still appear, from my immersion in other business, to carry with them strong marks...
11From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 24 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
To you, who so well know the affectionate regard I had for our departed friend, it is unnecessary to describe the sorrow with which I was afflicted at the news of his death; although it was an event I had expected many weeks before it happened. To express this sorrow with the force I feel it, would answer no other purpose than to revive, in your breast, that poignancy of anguish, which, by...
12From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 18 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
I was unable this day wee[k—] a day I devote in part, to writing letters of private concernment—to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant. As I shall always be sincerely disposed to give you my opinion upon any, and every point you may desire respecting the management of your Estate, or the Children, it is my ⟨w⟩ish that you would never be backward in laying them before me....
13From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 11 March 1793 (Washington Papers)
On the otherside, you will find the copy of a letter writtin this day week to your Brother Burwell. Since which, your letter of the 26th of February to your Aunt, informing her that you were about to leave Eltham, has been received; and is the cause as you might not be in the way of knowing the contents of my letter to your Brother of my addressing a copy of it to you; and requesting you would...
14From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 15 December 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Aunt has delivered me your letter of the 22d ulto—but as she did not arrive in this City until the 9th instt and forgot she had such an one until some days afterwards, this answr, I fear, will not reach Mount Vernon until you will have left it. I will have the furniture ready to send by the Spring Vessels to Alexandria. The frost will soon put a stop to all intercourse between the two...