1From George Washington to Martha Washington, c.6 Oct. 1794 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.6 Oct. 1794. On 8 Oct., Edmund Randolph wrote GW: “I was honored by your private letter of the 6th instant, about half an hour ago; and immediately delivered to Mrs Washington the one, addressed to her.”
2From George Washington to Martha Washington, 9 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.9 Oct. 1778. GW wrote Benjamin Lincoln on 9 Oct. : “I have declined troubling you with more than one [letter of introduction] to Mrs Washington.”
3From George Washington to Martha Washington, 29 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found : to Martha Washington, 29 June 1778. On 30 June , Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold acknowledged receipt of a letter from GW to him, “with the Letter Inclosed for Mrs Washington.”
4From George Washington to Martha Washington, 2–9 May 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.2–9 May 1791. Tobias Lear informed GW on 22 May 1791 that “Mrs Washington had the pleasure to receive two letters from you” by the brig Philadelphia, which had just arrived from Charleston.
5From George Washington to Martha Washington, 7 November 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, 7 Nov. 1777. In a letter to Anna Maria Dandridge Bassett of 18 Nov., Martha Washington wrote her sister that “the last Letter I had from the General was dated the 7th of this month he says nothing hath happend since the unsuccessful attack upon our forts on the Dalaware” ( ViMtvL ).
6From George Washington to Martha Washington, c.17 April 1795 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.17 April 1795. On 20 April, Randolph wrote GW that on the previous Saturday he had received GW’s letter of 17 April “together with the one inclosed for Mrs Washington, which I immediately sent to her.”
7From George Washington to Martha Washington, 24–26 April 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.24–26 April 1791. On 15 May Tobias Lear wrote to GW : “a letter for Mrs Washington came under cover to me, which she informed me was dated Wilmington.” GW was at Wilmington, N.C., from 24 to 26 April.
8From George Washington to Martha Washington, 10 June 1777 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.10 June 1777. On 10 June GW wrote Maj. Gen. Thomas Mifflin : “If Mrs Washington is in Philada be pleased to deliver the enclosed,” and on 11 June Mifflin wrote GW : “Mrs Washington is still here to whom I deliverd your Letter.”
9From George Washington to Martha Washington, 12–15 May 1791 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, c.12–15 May 1791. On 5 June Martha Washington wrote Frances Bassett Washington from Philadelphia: “I have had letters from the President from savanna” ( Fields, Papers of Martha Washington, Joseph E. Fields, ed. “Worthy Partner”: The Papers of Martha Washington . Westport, Conn., and London, 1994. 231–32).
10From George Washington to Martha Washington, 25 October 1776 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to Martha Washington, 25 Oct. 1776. GW wrote Hancock on 14 Nov . that Gen. William Howe had returned the letter “from myself to Mrs Washington of the 25 Ulto” that had been intercepted at Bristol, Pa., on 28 Oct. (see also Hancock to GW, 28 Oct. , and William Howe to GW, 11 November ).