1Tobias Lear to William Hilton, 2 December 1792 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States has received at his seat in Virginia, a number of plants from the Island of Jamaica, which were accompanied with a particular description of the plants sent, and a catalogue of the plants in the Jamaica public Garden. As there was no Letter received with the plants, the President would not have known to whose politeness he was indebted for this mark of...