- Timothy Pickering letter to Rebecca Pickering.
Valley Forge, PA - 21 December 1777
You tell me you embraced the opportunity by Mr. Goodhue to write to me, though you had nothing new to acquaint me with ; and yet you filled up nearly three pages.
- Timothy Pickering letter to Rebecca Pickering.
Valley Forge, PA - 24 December 1777
How many parents hearts have been rent with grief, how many widowed mates, how many spotless virgins (like the drooping lilies), have bowed their heads, oppressed with sorrow, at the loss of children, husbands, lovers !
- John Sullivan letter to George Washington.
Valley Forge, PA - 26 December 1777
I have consulted some of the General Officers who I thought most capable of advising upon the proper steps to take in our present circumstances. They say that they can by no means advise for or against an attack.
- letter to George Washington.
Valley Forge, PA - 31 December 1777
General Lafayette letter to General Washington...I should have much reproached myself the liberty I took of writing to your excellency, if I had believed it could engage you in the trouble of answering that letter.
- letter to Madame Lafayette.
Valley Forge, PA - 6 January 1778
General Lafayette letter to wife...What a date, my dearest love, and from what a region I am now writing, in the month of January!
- Gouverneur Morris letter to John Jay.
Valley Forge, PA - 1 February 1778
Congress have sent me here, in conjunction with some other gentlemen, to regulate their army, and in truth not a little regulation hath become necessary. Our quartermaster and commissary departments are in the most lamentable situation.
- John Sullivan letter to George Washington.
Valley Forge, PA - 2 March 1778
Nothing can be more painful to me, than the repetition of a request, which is known to be disagreeable to a Commander, to whom America in general, and myself in particular, stand so much indebted.
- letter to Madame Lafayette.
Valley Forge, PA - 14 April 1778
General Lafayette letter to wife...If thirty opportunities were to present themselves at once, my dearest love, you may rest assured that I would write thirty letters...
- letter to George Washington.
Valley Forge, PA - 19 May 1778
General Lafayette letter to General Washington...Give me leave, now, to present you with some observations delivered to me by many officers in that brigade...
