1To George Washington from Beverley Randolph, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Immediately on the receipt of your letter Covering a proposal for establishing a Woollen Manufactory in this state I laid it before the General Assembly taking care not to communicate the name or residence of the person from whom the proposal Came. I have now the honour to inclose you the Resolutions of the Senate and House of Delegates on that Subject. I am, with the highest respect your...
2To George Washington from Moustier, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Although my absence from the United States denies me the honor of conferring with the President, I dare to flatter myself that I shall be permitted to recall his remembrance of me and to request the continuance of his goodness as well in quality of his dignity, as, in what I desire still more, his personal regard. Having left America penetrated with sentiments of the truest veneration, of...
3From George Washington to the United States Senate, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
United States [New York] Gentlemen of the Senate January 11th 1790. I have directed Mr Lear, my private Secretary, to lay before you a copy of the adoption and ratification of the Constitution of the United States by the State of North Carolina, together with the copy of a letter from His Excellency Samuel Johnson President of the Convention of said State to the President of the United States....
4From George Washington to the United States Senate: Answer to the Address of the Senate, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
I thank you for your address, and for the assurances, which it contains of attention to the several Matters suggested by me to your consideration. Relying on the continuance of your exertions for the public good, I anticipate, for our Country, the salutary effects of upright and prudent Counsels. LB , DLC:GW . For the address of the Senate, see GW to the United States Senate and House of...
5To Alexander Hamilton from John E. Howard, 11 January 1790 (Hamilton Papers)
[ Annapolis ] January 11, 1790 . Encloses a statement of Maryland’s public debt. ALS , RG 56, Letters 2d Comptroller, 2d Auditor, Executive of Maryland and Georgia, 1789–1823, National Archives. This letter was written in reply to “Treasury Department Circular to the Governors of the States,” November 21, 1789 . Howard was governor of Maryland.
6To Thomas Jefferson from Moustier, 11 January 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
C’est avec le plus vif regret que j’ai quitté l’Amerique avant d’avoir la satisfaction de vous y voir arriver, mais la saison par laquelle je suis parti, etoit si avancée que je n’ai pas pû me permettre de reculer mon depart.—A present qui sait quand et où je pourrai jouir du plaisir de vous voir? Si vous persistiez dans la resolution, qu’on dit que vous aviez à votre depart, de revenir...
7From George Washington to Charles Pinckney, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
Private. Dear Sir, New York, January 11th 1790. Altho’ it is not in my power to enter so fully as I could wish into an investigation of the interesting subjects discussed in your letter of the 14th of last month; yet I would not deny myself the satisfaction of acknowledging the receipt of it, and of expressing my obligations for the sentiments which your Excellency has been pleased to suggest....
8To George Washington from Edward Rutledge, 11 January 1790 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Edward Rutledge, 11 Jan. 1790. The dealer’s catalog quotation from this letter reads:”. . . I have lately recd. Letter from some of my Friends in Congress which gives me Reason to hope that the time is not far distant when we shall have the Happiness of seeing you in this State: and as there is no Citizen in this Country who feels a stronger affection to you than I do or...
9From George Washington to the United States Senate, 11 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
United States [New York] Gentlemen of the Senate, January 11th, 1790. Having advised with you upon the terms of a treaty to be offered to the Creek Nation of Indians, I think it proper you should be informed of the result of that business, previous to its coming before you in your legislative capacity. I have therefore directed the Secretary for the Department of War, to lay before you my...
10[Diary entry: 11 January 1790] (Washington Papers)
Monday 11th. Sent my Instructions to the Commissioners (appointed to Negotiate a Treaty with the Creek Indians) with the report of their proceedings, to the Senate by the Secretary at War previous to their being laid before them and the other House in their Legislative Capacities. Also communicated to both Houses, transcripts of the adoption & ratification of the New Constitution by the State...