...as can well be expected in general. The General's appartment is very small he has had a log cabben built to dine in which has made our quarters much more tolerable than they were at first. It would give me pleasure to deliver your compliments to Mrs. Gates, but she lives at so great a distance...

...Washington joined him. In a letter to her New England friend, Mrs. Mercy Warren, Mrs. Washington writes: "The General's apartment is very small; he has had a log cabin built to dine in, which has made our headquarters much more desirable than they were at first." When Mrs. Washington's grandson, George...

...construction, Martha Washington, who had arrived at Valley Forge in February, noted that the addition "has made our quarters much more tolerable than they were at first." Meanwhile, Lafayette had moved into a very decent house south of Vallev Forge, as had French engineer...

...of cold and famine at Valley Forge in February. Mrs. Washington, writing a month afterwards, said : "The General's apartment is very small ; he has had...quarters much more tolerable than they were at first." In sharing the dangers and vicissitudes of the men, they, like the men, merged the love of self into...

...a comfortable home.* " The general's apartment," she wrote to her friend, Mercy Warren, in March, * is very small. He has had a log cabin built to dine...quarters much more tolerable than they were at first." I was in the general's apartment a few years ago. It was small, indeed, and the cavity and little trap-door...

...which they say is tolerably comfortable; the army are as healthy as can be well expected in general. The general's apartment is very small; he has had...cabin built to dine in, which has made our quarters more tolerable than they were at first." Mrs. Washington once again was a style leader. After her arrival,...

...healthy as can well be expected m general — the General's [Washingron) apartment is very small. lie has had a log cabin built to dine in which has made our quarters much more tolerahle than they were at first." Martha joked with Mercy: "It has given me unspeakable pleasure...

...style in this rude encampment. " The general's apartment is very small," writes she to a friend ; " he has had a log cabin built to dine in, which has made our quartern much more tolerable than they were at first." Lady Stirling, Mrs. Knox, the wife of the general,...