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Your letters of the 2d & 5th came to my hands on Saturday morning. Yesterday I allotted to...
On the 28th. I wrote you two letters. In one of them I intended (but forgot it) to have made a...
Your letter of the 30th Ulto was received yesterday. As I expect (nothing new & unforeseen...
This letter will be handed to you by Captn Myers, of whom I have made mention in a former letter....
It is nearly, if not quite a month, since I enclosed you a letter from the Revd Mr Van Vleck,...
Your letter of the 20th instt was received yesterday, and the principal design of this is to...
No. 28. Dear Sir, MOUNT VERNON, Septr. 23d. 1791. Your letter of the 18th. with the Gazettes came...
I have received your letter and A/c of the 2d Instt and presume it is all right. I wish however...
Your favor of the 23d instant came duly to hand. The letters which I write to acquaintances, or...
I have almost determined to build the Walls of the House intended for a Distillery (at my Mill)...
I am about to write you another short letter for tomorrow’s post,—although, in the course of the...
Since my last to you from Mount Vernon, your letters of the 3d. and 5th. Instant have been recd.,...
Since my last to you (the date I do not recollect, keeping no copies of my letters to you) I have...
Instructions for Mr Lear You will proceed to Pittsburgh by the following rout—Leesburgh, Keys’...
This is the eve of my departure for George town, & being Sunday, ought to have been a day of...
Your letters of the 21st & 23d instant have filled us with pain and anxiety, from which,...
Your letter of the 9th was forwarded to me yesterday morning by the Post-Master in Alexandria...
On Sunday last I returned from a twelve days excursion up the Potowmack & found your letters of...
If nothing happens more than I foresee to prevent it,—I propose to be in the Federal City on...
Looking into an old Portfolio, which I had not seen this many a day, I found the papers which...
Immediately upon the receipt of your letter of the 2d instant, I sent a transcript of so much of...
Your letters of the 22d Ulto came safe. I wish the information given by Mr Danl Parker to Doctr...
I am just setting off for Alexandria—bad as the day is—to a dinner given by the Citizens of that...
Yesterday we arrived at this place in good health, but with horses much worn down. To morrow I...
I recollect no business of sufficient importance to require your return hither, sooner than Doctr...
Since my last to you—from George Town—I have, I believe, received your letters of the 23d, 24th,...
Since my last to you, which I think was written on this day week, I have received your letters of...
I arrived at this place at the time appointed—to wit—the 1st inst. but did not receive your...
Letter not found: to Tobias Lear, 14 May 1791. On 3 June 1791 Lear wrote to David Humphreys: “I...
I have not written to you since we parted, but had just sat down to do it when your letter of the...