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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 1 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 14 … | 1777-10-14 | I do not do myself the honor of wr⟨a⟩ïting to you as many times as I would ch⟨u⟩se, because I... |
| 2 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1777-11-26 | I went down to this place since the day before yesterday in order to be acquainted of all the... |
| 3 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 1 … | 1777-12-01 | Your excellency ordered me to give my opinion about these three places for winter quarters 1º the... |
| 4 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 3 … | 1777-12-03 | the project of calling a large body of militia for such a day, in order to attack the ennemy in... |
| 5 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 30 … | 1777-12-30 | I went Yesterday morning to Head Quarters with an intention of Speaking to Your Excellency But... |
| 6 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 31 … | 1777-12-31 | I schould have much more reproached myself the liberty I took of wraïting to your excellency, if... |
| 7 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 5 … | 1778-01-05 | As your excellency’s opinion seems to gree with my ideas for ⟨taking⟩ in our service those Non... |
| 8 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 13 … | 1778-01-13 | I Schall make use in this particular instance of the liberty you gave me of telling freely every... |
| 9 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 20 … | 1778-01-20 | I have recieved just now a letter from general connway who is gone on to york town, and mullens... |
| 10 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 9 … | 1778-02-09 | I can not let go back my guide without taking this opportunity of wraiting to your excellency... |
| 11 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 19 … | 1778-02-19 | Why am I so far from you, and what business had that board of war to hurry me through the ice and... |
| 12 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 23 … | 1778-02-23 | I Meet with an occasion of wraïting to your excellency which I wo’nt miss by any means, even... |
| 13 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 27 … | 1778-02-27 | I hope your excellency will have received two letters from me, one by major brice, and the other... |
| 14 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 13 … | 1778-03-13 | Letter not found: from Major General Lafayette, c.13 Mar. 1778. On 20 Mar., Lafayette wrote Henry... |
| 15 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 20 … | 1778-03-20 | Alwaïs new instances where I find myself obliged to send to Congress—was I not So sensible of... |
| 16 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 22 … | 1778-03-22 | I can never miss an opportunity of rembembering to your excellency the mighty Commander in chief... |
| 17 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-03-25 | how happy I have been in receiving your excellency’s favor of the tenth present I hope you’l be... |
| 18 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-04-25 | The present questions are the most difficult to resolve upon that have been proposed since I have... |
| 19 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 15 … | 1778-05-15 | Agreable to your excellency’s orders I have taken the oath of the gentlemen officers in general... |
| 20 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 17 … | 1778-06-17 | The situation we are in renders it extremely difficult to have a Settled notion of what is the... |
| 21 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 24 … | 1778-06-24 | I have Sign’d the paper because I have been told I schould Sign it, and because almost all the... |
| 22 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-06-25 | inclosed I have the honor to Send you a Letter which clel hamilton was going to send me from this... |
| 23 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | I have Receiv’d your orders for marching as fast as I Could and I have march’d without waiting... |
| 24 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | I hope you have receiv’d my letter from Cramberry where I aquaint you that I am going to hice... |
| 25 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | I have Receiv’d your excellency’s favor notifying your arrival at cramberry and am glad to have... |
| 26 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | Your orders have reach’d me so late, and found me in such a situation that it will be impossible... |
| 27 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-07-25 | inclos’d I have the honor to send you a letter from General Sullivan which I took the liberty to... |
| 28 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 28 … | 1778-07-28 | I take the opportunity of an express going from General Sullivan to your Excellency for to let... |
| 29 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 6 … | 1778-08-06 | I have receiv’d your Excellency’s favor by general greene, and have been much pleas’d with the... |
| 30 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette … | ≈1778-08-25 | I had expected for answering to your first letter that Some thing interesting would have happened... |
| 31 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 1 … | 1778-09-01 | that there has been an action fought where I could have been and where I was not, is a thing... |
| 32 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 3 … | 1778-09-03 | I Can’t let Mons. de la Neuville go to headquarters without Recalling to Your Excellency’s memory... |
| 33 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 21 … | 1778-09-21 | I am to aknowledge the reception of your late favor —your excellency’s Sentiments were already... |
| 34 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 24 … | 1778-09-24 | I am going to Consult your excellency upon a point in which I not only want your leave and... |
| 35 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 28 … | 1778-09-28 | The News I have got from france, the Reflexions I have made by myself, and these which have been... |
| 36 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 24 … | 1778-10-24 | You will be surpris’d to hear that I am yet in this city, and that I Could never get out till... |
| 37 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 30 … | 1778-10-30 | Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Lafayette, c.30 Oct. 1778. GW wrote Vice Admiral d’Estaing on 31... |
| 38 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 5–10 … | ≈1779-01-05 | in my dificult situation, at Such a distance from you, I am oblig’d to take a determination by... |
| 39 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 7 … | 1779-01-07 | This letter will be delivered to your excellency by Mister Nevill my aid de Camp whom I beg you... |
| 40 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 11 … | 1779-01-11 | The Sails are just going to be hoisted, My dear General, and I have But the time of taking my... |
| 41 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette … | ≈1779-06-12 | Here is at lenght a Safe occasion of writing to you, here I May tell you What Sincere Concern I... |
| 42 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 7 … | 1779-10-07 | from those happy ties of friendship By which you were pleas’d to unite yourself with me, from the... |
| 43 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 27 … | 1780-04-27 | here I am, My dear General, and in the Mist of the joy I feel in finding Myself again one of your... |
| 44 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 17 … | 1780-05-17 | Letters not found: from Major General Lafayette, 17 May 1780. On 20 May, GW wrote Lafayette: “I... |
| 45 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 4 … | 1780-07-04 | You know, My dear General, that I Am Very Anxious of Seeing the Army well Cloathed for this... |
| 46 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 16 … | 1780-07-16 | You have desired, My dear General, I would put in writing a Summary of the ideas which I Gave as... |
| 47 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 20 … | 1780-07-20 | having heard of an express from Rhodeisland being Going through the Continental Village I sent... |
| 48 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 21 … | 1780-07-21 | As I find an express Going from hartfort to General Greene, I send this letter to him, that You... |
| 49 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 22 … | 1780-07-22 | I hasten to inform you that the Missing transport is safely arriv’d on the 19th at Boston —she is... |
| 50 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 23 … | 1780-07-23 | I had this Morning the honor to wait on his excellency the Governor, and took the liberty, thò in... |