1To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas, 8 September 1775 (Washington Papers)
Were I not apprehensive that I should appear rather late in doing it, I am sure none of your Countrymen could with greater Sincerity congratulate you on your Promotion to the very important & honourable Post you now fill. You will no doubt have heard the distressful Situation this unhappy Country is now in. We have too much Reason to apprehend that our Enemies will exert every Effort to annoy...
2From George Washington to Robert Carter Nicholas, 5 October 1775 (Washington Papers)
Your favour of the 8th Ultimo came to my hands on the 2d Instant by Mr Byrd. I return you my sincere thanks for your kind congratulation on my Appointment to the honourable and important Post I now hold, by the suffrages of this great Continent. My heart will ever bear testimony of my gratitude, for the distinguished mark of honour which has been conferred on me by this Appointment; as it also...
3To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas, 3 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your very obliging favr by Capt. Matthews. Your former Letter in Answer to mine by Mr Byrd I received in due time, & took the earliest Opportunity of recommending it to our Delegates to fix upon some Method to defray the Expences incurr’d by this Country in the northern Colonies. This they tell me that they have not been able to effect, so that I have been...
4To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas, 20 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
My Son, Majr Nicholas, of the 10th Regiment embodied in Virginia, will have the Honor of presenting you with this Letter. Presuming on the Intimacy & Frindship I have had the Pleasure of cultivating with you, I take the Liberty of recommending him to your Countenance & Civilities. He stept forth very young in the Service of his Country & I trust will ever continue warmly devoted to her truest...
5To George Washington from Robert Carter Nicholas, 10 July 1777 (Washington Papers)
I have to thank you for your very obliging favour in Ansr to what I had the Honor of writing by Son, Majr Nicholas, & am particularly obliged by yr Civilities to him. I have wrote to Colo. Harrison about the Money you kindly advanced to Mr Otway Byrd on my Letter, & don’t doubt his paying a proper Attention to it. I had supposed, till the Rect of yr last Ltr, that the Money had been long since...
6From George Washington to Robert Carter Nicholas, 2 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Fairfax before he left Virginia last, vested me with powers to superintend his interest in that Country; and till I accepted the command of the American Army, I attended to it accordingly. So soon as I found that private attentions would no longer comport with public duty, and that it was not in my power to do justice to the trust which he had been pleased to repose in me, I acquainted...
7From George Washington to Robert Carter Nicholas, 7 November 1780 (Washington Papers)
As I am perswaded that the letters, of which the inclosed are copies, never reached your hands, I take the liberty of forwarding a duplicate of the last, & triplicate of the first—with the Inclosures it refers to. Since mine of March to you, I have been favoured with a third letter from our good friend Colo. Fairfax, copy of which I also send; and should be happy in knowing that you had...