1From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 6 August 1797 (Washington Papers)
I am so much your debtor in the epistolary way, that it would upbraid me too severely was I to go into a particular acknowledgment of the receipt of all the letters with which you have honoured me in the course of the last two or three years—and avoiding this accustomed mode, I scarcely know how to begin my letter to you, or what apology to make for so long a silence. As honesty however (in...
2From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 20 October 1792 (Washington Papers)
Where your Letter of the 21st of december last has been travelling since it left you, I cannot tell; but it did not get to my hands ‘till within a few weeks past, when I likewise received yours of the 15th of July introducing Mr Anderson. I was sorry to see the gloomy picture which you drew of the affairs of your country in your letter of december; but I hope events have not turned out so...
3From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792 (Washington Papers)
I have now before me your letters of the 9th of January & 12th of february, to which it will not be in my power to reply so fully as my inclination would lead me to do if I had no avocations but those of a personal nature. I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the Protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious and alarming heigth mentioned in your letters. Religious...
4From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 5 September 1791 (Washington Papers)
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 31st of January, and 10 of March last, and to express my obligations to your flattering and friendly assurances of regard. The interest which you are so good as to take in the welfare of the United States makes the communication of their prosperity to you, a most agreeable duty. You will learn with pleasure that events have...
5From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 15 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have now before me your several letters of the 23rd of February, 24th of July, 14th of August and 10th of October 1789—the last of which but lately reached my hands. I should feel myself guilty of a great impropriety in suffering your letters to lay so long without an acknowledgement, was I not conscious that the new and busy scenes in which I have been engaged for these 9 or 10 months past,...
6From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 29 July 1789 (Washington Papers)
Since my arrival in this City I have had the pleasure to receive a letter from you; but, you will do me the justice to believe, that my numerous avocations & encreasing duties have been such as to form some apology for want of punctuality in my private Corrispondencies. The immediate object of this letter is to introduce to your acquaintance & civilities Mrs Montgomery, a lady of a very...
7From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 2 March 1789 (Washington Papers)
I am taking up my pen to present my acknowledgment for your letter of the 10th of Octobr last; and wish I had any thing to communicate in return, which might make mine equally acceptable to you. Notwithstanding my various endeavours to procure the articles I was desirous of transmitting to you, I have only been able to succeed in obtaining a couple of opossums, of the different sexes. I have...
8From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 29 August 1788 (Washington Papers)
I beg you will be persuaded that it always gives me singular pleasure to hear from you; and that your obliging letters of the 22th & 25th of March afforded me particular satisfaction. I am also to thank you for the Irish Parliamentary Papers which have come safe to hand. The Edition of Cooke’s Voyage, which you mention to have forwarded by a former occasion, has not been so successfull in its...
9From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 24 February 1788 (Washington Papers)
I have been favoured with your letter of the 10th of Augt and am very sorry to find by it, that your intended voyage to this Country was prevented, and especially after you had made your arrangements and was upon the point of Sailing. The cause of your detention must have made it still more displeasing to you, for, of all the vexations in life, that of a tedious & perplexing Law-suit is the...
10From George Washington to Edward Newenham, 25 December 1787 (Washington Papers)
I have reed your letters of the 9th of Decr 1786—27th of Feby and 2d of march 1787. They should have had an earlier & more regular acknowledgment had not the publick business in which I was, in a manner, compeled to engage the last summer, joined to the unremitting attention which my own private affairs require rendered it almost impossible to observe that punctuallity with my correspondents...