1To 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...
2To 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.”
3To 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...
4To George Washington from Landon Carter, 24 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
I am now to give you some account of an Arrangement which I rather wish to adopt, than one I have in real practice. The untowardness, so often complained of as a fatallity, may always be traced to some error in the Man himself, immediate or remote: Howsoever this may be, an untowardness has unceasingly marked my Life. My Plan requires appropriate Farm Houses, Utensils, and inclosures; and I am...
5To George Washington from Landon Carter, 29 November 1796 (Washington Papers)
Your Queries are very apt ones, and I regret my inabillity to answer some of them so satisfactorily as I could wish, and you might reasonably expect: Arising from my whole life being recluse, & the early part wrapt in contemplation. Altho I wrote in 1794, I had only began the practice in the year my publication alluded to, supposing myself fixed with a Person capable of conducting the...
6To George Washington from Landon Carter, 13 December 1796 (Washington Papers)
There is much Time escaped since I commenced my Reply to your queries, 29th ulmo; owing to my being upon a Party to visit this place; the season having waved that from day to day: I am now fixed here, and shall with pleasure take up the subject. Your 5th quere would properly belong to the last Letter, on account of that confused management which has ever afflicted me: I will only observe, that...
7To George Washington from Landon Carter, 27 October 1796 (Washington Papers)
Owing to my absence from home on the arrival of our weekly post, I did not receive your Favor of the 17th inst. until the 24th at night. I immediately prepared a Letter for continuance of the correspondence, you seemed to be willing to comply with. Upon a review of that Letter tho, I resolved to suppress it on acct of the subject: That was of a nature to involve too much of conjecture. Your...