125111To George Washington from Brigadier General William Maxwell, 6 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
Since I wrote to your Excellency yesterday I found some difficulty in geting the Tents &ca. I have now wrote to General Green giving him a full account of our sittuation and beg’d that he would wait on your Excellency and know what part of our movements and destination you thought proper to communicate to him; that when I received any future Orders from you to move the whole, or any part of...
125112To George Washington from the Marquise de Lafayette, 9 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
Recevés, monsieur l’hommage de ma vive recconnoissance du brevet que vous aves eu La bonté de nous envoyer pour mr Poirey; et d’accompagner de temoignages si flatteurs d’estime et de bienveillance pour Lui, qu’ils ont mis Le comble a une satisfaction, dont j’ose dire qu’il est digne. vous nous avés fourni un moyen, que nous ne pouvions devoir qu’a vous, de lui montrer le pois que nous mettions...
125113From George Washington to John Marsden Pintard, 22 June 1799 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: to John Marsden Pintard, 22 June 1799. On 22 June GW forwarded to Elias Boudinot the original and duplicate of “a letter of this date” addressed to Pintard.
125114Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 1 May 1759 (Washington Papers)
Invoice of Sundry Goods to be Shipd by Robt Cary Esq. and Company for the use of George Washington—viz. 1 Tester Bedstead 7½ feet pitch, with fashionable blew or blew and white Curtains to suit a Room lind wt. the Incld paper Window Curtains of the same for two Windows; with either Papier Maché Cornish to them, or Cornish coverd with the Cloth 1 fine Bed Coverlid to match the Curtains 4 Chair...
125115[Diary entry: 1 March 1774] (Washington Papers)
March 1. Mr. & Mrs. Calvert & Miss Calvert with Mr. Custis & his Wife & Mr. George Digges came to Dinner. On 20 Feb., Jacky Custis had written to GW : “All the [Calvert] family . . . expect to see you on Tuesday 1st. of March, if the Weather permits” ( DLC:GW ).
125116From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 August 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Copy and transcript: Library of Congress I recieved your kind Letter of Apl. 17. You will have the goodness to place my delay in answering to the Account of Indisposition & Business, & excuse it. I have now that letter before me; and my Grandson whom you may formerly remember a little Scholar of Mr. Elphinson’s, purposing to set out in a day or two on a visit to his Father in London, I set...
125117From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 7 August 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President the draught of a letter to Mr. Genet, in pursuance of the opinion of Saturday last approved by the President. RC ( DNA : RG 59, MLR ); addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear. Tr ( Lb in same, SDC ). Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: TJ to Edmond Charles Genet, 7 Aug. 1793
12511826 Tuesday. (Adams Papers)
At Colledge, a very rainy Day, as it has remained since yesterday-morning. By reason of my illness omitted Disputing from this question, generalia aestuum phaenomina solvuntur ab atractione solis et lunae. “The general phenomena of the tides are explained by the attraction of the sun and moon.” This “quaestio” had been one of the “Theses Physicae” disputed at commencement in 1746 and would be...
125119To James Madison from William C. C. Claiborne, 31 January 1804 (Madison Papers)
A vessel arrived at this port a few days since with fifty African negroes for sale. Being unwilling to permit so barbarous a traffic, if my powers authorized me to prevent it, I immediately applied to a Mr. Leonard the late Spanish Contádore at this place, a man of great integrity of character for information as to the laws and customs of Spain relating to the African trade, and received from...
125120To John Adams from William Tudor, Jr., 25 March 1817 (Adams Papers)
I set out the first of next week on the journey to the South in execution of a State commission to examine the various penitentiaries. I have a desire to visit Washington if time will permit, and will certainly attempt to get there if my brother in law Captain Stewart will accompany me from Philadelphia as he has proposed—I knew Mr Monroe in England, and I may perhaps say he honored me with a...