1From George Washington to Elisha Boudinot, 10 May 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter of congratulation contains expressions of too friendly a nature not to affect me with the deepest sensibility; I beg therefore you will accept my acknowledgements for them, and that you will be perswaded I can never be insensible of the interest you are pleased to take in my personal happiness, as well as in the general felicity of our Country. While I candidly confess I cannot be...