1To George Washington from Lieutenant Francis Monty, 29 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Conceiving you to be The Father of the Army, and knowing the Justness, that Ever Reigns, in your Breast, is what Induces me to Apply to your Excellency for Redress in a Cause wherin I Conceive myself much Injured. Your Excellency must know that five years ago I Enterd this Service in Cannada as a Lieutenant that on our being Repulsd I was obliged to Quit the Country and Happily Brought my...
2To George Washington from La Luzerne, 29 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have received with all the gratitude possible the news which your Excellency has been pleased to give me of Don Juan. I begin to flatter myself that the cares he has received from you and from all those who surround him will reestablish him. I cannot sufficiently express to you Sir my sentiments in this respect and for the kindnesses without number, which you have heaped upon me during the...
3To George Washington from Captain James Rivers, 29 April 1780 (Washington Papers)
Your Excellency will percieve by the few inclos’d Lines why I so earnestly entreat for Leave to go to England. I can assure You upon my Word that the Surgeons in the Winter had but small hopes of my recovery, but since the Spring has opened itself, I am somewhat better, nothing but my impair’d Health & shatter’d Constitution would permit me to ask so high a favor, & your known Humanity paints...