31From George Washington to Samuel Vaughan, 14 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
The torpid state into which the severity of the season has thrown things—the interruption of the post, occasioned by bad roads, and frozen rivers—& a want of other conveyance consequent thereof, must plead my excuse for not thanking you sooner for the polite attention you were pleased to shew me, while I was in Philada, & for the friendly offers you obligingly made me, before I left that...
32To George Washington from Dulau d’Allemans, 15 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
L’armée americaine vient de donner aux troupes francoises, qui ont eu L’honneur de Luy etre associée sous vos ordrès, une marque flateuse de bienveillance et d’estime. C’est a vous Comme a notre Commun général que nous devons temoigner notre reconnoissance, Le regiment d’agénois dont Javois L’honneur detre Colonel en Second pendant Le siege d’yorck y sera particulierement sensible, Ce regiment...
33From George Washington to William Hamilton, 15 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
If I recollect right, I heard you say when I had the pleasure of seeing you in Philadelphia, that you were about a Floor composed of a Cement which was to answer the purpose of Flagstones or Tiles, and that you proposed to variegate the colour of the squares in the manner of the former. As I have a long open Gallery in Front of my House to which I want to give a Stone, or some other kind of...
34To George Washington from Richard Varick, 15 January 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Richard Varick, 15 Jan. 1784. On 22 Feb. GW wrote to Varick : “The intemperate Season and irregularity of the Post, withheld your letter of the 15th Ulto from me ’till within these few days.”
35From George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 15 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have received your letter of the 22d Ulto—the former one, accompanying my Trunks, also came safe. When I came to examine the Chimney pieces in this House, I found them so interwoven with the other parts of the Work and so good of their kind, as to induce me to lay aside all thoughts of taking any of them down—for the only room which remains unfinished I am not yet fixed in my own mind but...
36To George Washington from Charles Washington, 15 January 1784 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Charles Washington, 15 Jan. 1784. On 28 Feb. GW wrote Charles Washington : “Your Letter dated the 15th of January . . . came to my hands last Night.” The letter may have been misdated.
37From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 17 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
On the 8th I wrote to you for 70 Yards of livery lace (red & white, 3/4 or Inch wide, or any width between) to be sent by the Post; or any other safe & expeditious conveyance. Lest that letter should have miscarried I repeat my request, as I am in immediate want of the article. I did, at the sametime desire that one hundd weight, or a Barrl of good Coffee might be sent me by the first Vessel...
38To George Washington from Commissioners of Embarkation at New York, 18 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
The british Troops being wholly withdrawn from this Place, it only remains to the closing the Business under your Excellency’s Commission to us of the 8th of May Ulti.—that we should report our Proceedings. We presume it will be needless to recapitulate our former Communications, and therefore take the Liberty of referring to our Letters to your Excellency of the 30th of May, 14th and 18th of...
39From George Washington to Benjamin Harrison, 18 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
I have just had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 8th—for the friendly & affectionate terms in which you have welcomed my return to this Country & to private life; & for the favourable light in which you are pleased to consider, & express your sense of my past services, you have my warmest & most grateful acknowledgments. That the prospect before us is, as you justly observe, fair,...
40From George Washington to Thomas Mifflin, 19 January 1784 (Washington Papers)
In a Letter which I did myself the honor to write to your Excellency, on the 21st of Decr, amongst other matters which were submitted to the consideration of Congress, I mentioned the case of Brigr Genl Michael Jackson, and informed you that having mislaid the papers relative to it, I could only state the facts from my recollection—having now found the original documents I take the liberty to...