From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 25 October 1796
To Timothy Pickering
Mount Vernon 25th Oct. 1796
Dear Sir
The enclosed letter came under cover to me from the Sister of General Pinckney.
Not knowing whether he had Sailed or not, she took this method of forwarding of it to him—and I request you to do this by the first good Conveyance.1 I am Yours Affectly
Go: Washington
P.S. I shall commence my Journey for Philadelphia this afternoon—but business will detain me one day at least in the Federal City.2
ALS, PHi: Dreer Collection; copy, MHi: Pickering Papers. No reply to GW from Pickering has been found.
1. No letter from Harriott Pinckney Horry to GW enclosing one to her brother, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, has been found. Horry’s letter to Pinckney has not been identified.
Pinckney and his family arrived in Philadelphia on 14 Sept. and later that month sailed to France (see Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., to GW, 26 Sept., and n.2 to that document; see also GW to Pinckney, 5 Dec., and n.3; and , 136–40).
2. GW returned to Philadelphia on 31 Oct. after first stopping in the Federal City to meet with the D.C. commissioners (see GW to William Pearce, 26 Oct., and n.1 to that document; see also GW to Alexander Hamilton, 2 Nov., and n.1 to that document).