1To George Washington from Landon Carter, 22 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
If any thing could alleviate my feelings for you in your Pro virili retreat indeed! A Small remnant of an army, who respected their general & their country, more than they did a visit to their wives and families, under all the ravagements & ravishments of an enimy, if not properly withstood: I say if any thing could alleviate such feelings, it was my active anxiousness, to encourage the...
2To George Washington from Landon Carter, 9 May 1776 (Washington Papers)
If ever friendship gave vigor to the nerves of declining Age it will do it now—to enable me to acknowledge the receipt of your Favor March 27. I assure you I endorsed it the history of the evacuation of Boston. A mere Magnum in Parvo; and I read it with great pleasure to all our friends around. Permit me to say that you have made good the Prediction of my first acquaintance with you. A...
3To George Washington from Landon Carter, 20 February 1776 (Washington Papers)
[Sabine Hall] 20 February 1776. Wrote “attacking Paine for publishing ‘Common Sense,’ and urging against independence.” ALS , sold by Anderson’s, Robinson sale21 Jan. 1904, American Book Prices Current , 10 (1904), 636. In his diary entry for 20 Feb. 1776 Landon Carter (1710–1778) of Richmond County, Va., says that he “Wrote to Col. F[rancis] L[ightfoot] Lee and Genl. Washington about getting...
4To George Washington from Landon Carter, 28 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your warmest well wisher has not more devoutly desired the pleasure of your acquaintance, than I have ever done; but I could promise myself no success in the attempt, stranger as I am, whilst you have been surrounded by the Formalities of your Office: Therefore I have not yet made my appearance at Mt Vernon, even. The Aurora, Gazzet, has boldly announced your definitive resolve to retire from...
5To George Washington from Landon Carter, 1 October 1798 (Washington Papers)
Health is a grand object with man; but it becomes all important when the preservation of it in any one person comprehends all the relations of a People; when like a focus the views of all direct to a single point: Permit me therefore to lay before you some leading principles; some conclusions; and some consequent practice, for the security of health. I believe it is a fact generally admitted,...
6To George Washington from Landon Carter, May 1756 (Washington Papers)
The bearer of this will God willing be my son Landon whose inclinations for the Army have been before discovered but then I had no relish for it because I foresaw in the Number of Masters and one ignorant director many things would fall to an officers lot to account for when every truth received no credit that should be admitted for misadventure for these reasons I put him by but now under an...
7To George Washington from Landon Carter, 14 February 1797 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : from Landon Carter, 14 Feb. 1797 . GW wrote Carter on 27 Feb. : “Your favor of the 14th instt came duly to hand.”
8To George Washington from Landon Carter, 18 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
Without further Preface I will proceed to answer your 10th quere, as to the Period to be prefered for planting the Pease; which will equally be a reply to the 11th, as they hinge very much together. A Field which was planted, in the year 1794, on the 19th to the 21st May, were pulled up about the same time in August: The season warm and pretty dry. I was absent from home so long, in the Summer...
9To George Washington from Landon Carter, 18 May 1797 (Washington Papers)
In pursuance to a conversation I had with you at Mt Vernon I have proceeded as near as I could your wish upon the occasion. I postponed the thing thus long because I thought a personal enquiery would be preferrable to an epistolary one. Upon a question to your Nephew George L. if he had any probable chance of accomodating you, he assured me that he had no prospect at all and advised me to...
10To George Washington from Landon Carter, 8 September 1798 (Washington Papers)
I beg your pardon for this intrusion; but indulged by you as I have been in a late correspondence I am bold to adress to you my own tender concerns: But first let me join my country men in a prayer of thanksgiving to almighty God that he has, in his bounty to us all, rescued from Disease a Life so importantly interesting. To God be all praise! amen. Hovering, and in doubt, over the various...