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...