I only returned home three days ago and after consulting with Mr Lewis. I lose no time in giving our answer to your letter of the 10th of November.

ON the other side is a copy of the Constitution of the United States Military Philosophical Society, which has undergone some amendments, found essential in practice: you will discover them by comparing t… Continue Reading From Jonathan Williams, 2 Nov. 1807

There being now in this City a considerable number of the Members of the United States Military Philosophical Society, I think it my duty in conformity to the 3d Section of the 4th Chapter of the Constitution, to call an occasion… Continue Reading From Jonathan Williams, 23 Jan. 1808

THE President of the United States Military Philosophical Society, has requested me to communicate to the several Members, the following extract from their minutes.

Your letter of the 4 Inst is Just handed to me by your nephew— Mr Jno Washington: enclosing in— from Mr Dade, who no doubt informed you of my disposition to coopperate with you in any measure relative to the Jefferson Land, as fa… Continue Reading From Gerard Alexander Jr., 6 Sept. 1811

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The enclosed is in answer to a letter I have just received from your Brother. It goes unsealed that you may aid it with your own opinion and advice or by searching among my Papers as directed for any thing that may be serviceable.… Continue Reading From George Washington, 16 Dec. 1789

I have had a Visitation of my old Enemy the Vertigo.

Your Circular I have but just received owing to my Absence from Town, Otherwise it would have been answered in due time.

I had the pleasure of receiving your late letter yesterday. The question which you state is indeed an important & delicate one. I have never yet had reason to decide it although it has been twice within my view.… Continue Reading From Joseph Story, 21 April 1814

I hope this letter will reach you on your return to Mount Vernon safe from the Enemy and what I deem more perilous, the dangers of the roads to & from Philadelphia— On our return Judge Livingston… Continue Reading From Joseph Story, 8 May 1813

I was much gratified by the Receipt of your Letter of the 8th instant. I have been uneasy lest you Should suffer by the Inroads of the Enemy, or the Depredations of undisciplined Friends. Mount Vernon should be hallowed, even by Barbarians.

I have not yet heard whether your session in Philadelphia is over & you have returned to Mount Vernon.

I have received your letter of the 2nd instant, & in reply beg leave to say that, with the approbation of the Secty of the Navy, I will most cheerfully receive Mr Busrod W. Turner as one of the midshipmen of the N. Carolina.

I am grieved to learn by your late letter of your continued indisposition— I heard in the autumn quite by accident of your sickness at Philadelphia; but I presumed it was temporary.

It is a sabbath evening; but I take up my pen to address you on a holy theme.

I am very sensible of the honor done me in the election which constitutes me a member of the military academy of the U.S.

I thank you for your late letter containing the Decisions of your spring & autumnal Circt.¹ I shall confine my Answer to your own Cases, intending to bring you an abstract of mine when I come to Washington this win… Continue Reading From Joseph Story, 22 Dec. 1828