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From George Washington to Charles Lawrence, 20 July 1767

To Charles Lawrence

[Mount Vernon] Virginia July 20th 1767.

Sir,

Inclosd is a Measure for Breeches, by which please to send me a pair of black silk Knit ones—I shoud be glad also to have sent me a Sartout great Coat fashionably made of good Cloth1—I presume you have my Meas[ur]e & therefore have sent none but in case you shoud be at a loss, make it to fit a person Six feet high and proportionably made, & you cannot go much amiss. let the Breeches have cool linings fit for Summer wear and a side pocket.

Messrs Cary & Co. will pay the amount of the above charge as also of a fashionable Suit of Cloth Cloaths which you are desired to make for Master Custis (who is about 14 Yrs of age & tolerably well grown) and to send them along with the above things of mine.2 I am Sir Yr Very Hble Servt

Go: Washington

ALB, DLC:GW. GW noted that the letter was sent “By the Plantrs Friend.”

1. A surtout coat is a long, loose-fitting overcoat, or riding coat, for men.

2. Robert Cary & Co.’s invoice of 29 Oct. 1767 listed these clothes.

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    “From George Washington to Charles Lawrence, 20 July 1767,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0006. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, p. 8.]

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