11To George Washington from William Heath, 22 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
Yesterday I was honored with yours of the 5th instant. I presume before this time your near dearth of news has changed to a plentifull harvest of such as is highly important and interesting and that your Excellencys hopes that the present is the last winter you shall be kept from domestic Life, are established beyond a doubt. I need not hint to your Excellency how sanguine I was for several...
12From George Washington to Samuel Phillips, Jr., 22 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been honord by the hands of Maj. General Lincoln and Mr Higginson with the joint address of the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusets dated the 8th day of this Month, containing a representation respecting the British Post at Penobscot, and the dangerous situation of the Eastern frontiers of the Commonwealth together with some proposals...
13To George Washington from James Randolph Reid, 22 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
22d Feby 1783 I have been informed that a reduction of General Hazen’s Regt to the establishment of the Army is about to take place, which must eventually derange me. I take this early opportunity to inform your Excellency that I shall retire with infinite pain from a service, wherein a few virtuous and perservering Soldiers have (to the astonishment of the world) effected a glorious...
14From George Washington to James Randolph Reid, 22 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have recd you favor of this date, & have to inform you that there are some circumstances which render it inexpedient for a furlough to be granted to you at this Moment, in a few days (by the first of march I presume) you may expect the permission you sollicit. As no Warrants for Pay or Subsestence are now given by me, it will be proper to make your Arrangements on that head with the Depy Pay...
15From John Jay to Silas Deane, 22 February 1783 (Jay Papers)
Your letter of the 10th inst. was delivered to me a few days ago. The reason to which you ascribe my not having answered the other you wrote me was the true one, viz. that it was unnecessary. The time has been, when my writing to you would not have depended on such a circumstance, for you are not mistaken in supposing that I was once your friend. I really was, and should still have been so,...
I most heartily congratulate you on the Preliminary Articles of a General Peace being signed, and I hope that the Public concerns of your Country will not in future require so much of your attention & application to business, as to be prejudicial to your health—which I am convinced was the case when I was at Paris— and that you will have sufficient leizure to make little excursions into the...
17To John Jay from Montmorin, 22 February 1783 (Jay Papers)
Je ne crois pas, monsieur, pouvoir vous faire parvenir mon compliment sur la paix par une voix plus convenable, et qui vous soit plus agréable que celle du Mr le Mis de la fayette, il est votre ami, votre compatriote adoptif, et sera compté par la postérite parmi le nombre de ceux qui ont le plus contribué a la grande révolution dont vous avés été un des principaux acteurs, et que la paix...
18To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
RC ( LC : Madison Papers). Unsigned but in Randolph’s hand. Parts of the manuscript are hard to read. Besides revising a few words by writing over rather than above them, he used a porous paper. This caused the ink to spread, thereby blotting several adjacent letters together. He posted the letter on 1 March. See Randolph to JM, 1 Mar. 1783 . I easily conceive the difficulty if not...