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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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| 21 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 24 October 1797 | 1797-10-24 | You ask what is absolutely out of my power to comply with, unless I was to place myself exactly... |
| 22 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 1 October 1792 | 1792-10-01 | Expecting this letter will find you in Philadelphia—I wish you wd begin in time to compare all my... |
| 23 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 21 April 1791 | 1791-04-21 | Not having heard from you since I wrote to you from Richmond, the purpose of this is only to let... |
| 24 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 10 March 1797 | 1797-03-10 | We arrived at this place to dinner and shall remain all night. To morrow we shall proceed but... |
| 25 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 March 1797 | 1797-03-12 | As I ride on matters occur to me and I shall take the chance of mentioning them to you before you... |
| 26 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 31 March 1799 | 1799-03-31 | If perchance you should happen to see Mr. Blagden before you leave the City, be so good as to get... |
| 27 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 10 November 1797 | 1797-11-10 | I have received both of your letters dated yesterday; & thank you for the information given in... |
| 28 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 4 June 1795 | 1795-06-04 | Your letters of the 26th & 29th Ulto have been duly received, but not adverting in time, that the... |
| 29 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 11 September … | 1797-09-11 | Your letter of the 8th instant was given to me yesterday by Mr Jno. Bassett. If you had intimated... |
| 30 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 13 March 1796 | 1796-03-13 | Your letters of the 26th Ulto and 2d Instant, came safe to hand, after some delay. The first,... |
| 31 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 5 April 1793 | 1793-04-05 | From Baltimore I acknowledged the receipt of your letter of the 29th Ulto; as I am now about to... |
| 32 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | Certificate for Tobias Lear, 25 March 1793 | 1793-03-25 | I do hereby certify that I have examined the Accounts which have been kept by Mr Tobias Lear, on... |
| 33 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 31 July 1797 | 1797-07-31 | I am alone at present, and shall be glad to see you this evening. Unless some one pops in,... |
| 34 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 July 1792 | 1792-07-30 | Your letter from New York came duly to hand, and I was glad to find you had got that far in... |
| 35 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 24–26 April 1791 … | ≈1791-04-24 | Letter not found: to Tobias Lear, c.24–26 April 1791. On 15 May Lear wrote GW that he received a... |
| 36 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 14 November 1790 | 1790-11-14 | (Private) Dear Sir, Mount Vernon Novr 14th 1790 . Having wrote two letters to you on the subject... |
| 37 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 29 April 1796 | 1796-04-29 | Yesterday’s Post brought me the letters which had arrived in the Commerce, Captn Tuttell;... |
| 38 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 31 October 1790 | 1790-10-31 | I have received your letter of the 24th since the date of my last to you; and am very glad to... |
| 39 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 September … | 1791-09-26 | Since my last to you I have received your two letters of the 21st instant—one dated in the... |
| 40 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 8 April 1793 | 1793-04-08 | Since my last to you from this place, your letter of 3d instt has been received transmitting... |
| 41 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 21 September … | 1792-09-21 | I have written but one letter to you since I came to this place —I was on the point of writing a... |
| 42 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 21 December 1794 | 1794-12-21 | Your letter of the 17th instt was received yesterday, and I am glad to find that an act of the... |
| 43 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 5 August 1795 | 1795-08-05 | It is my intention, at present, to be in Georgetown to morrow; but as I have been sending to the... |
| 44 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 August 1798 | 1798-08-30 | I have, at length, received the President’s answer (through the Secretary of War) to my request... |
| 45 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | Authorization for Tobias Lear, 30 August 1790 | 1790-08-30 | Whereas it may be necessary, during my absence from the Seat of Government, to pay certain monies... |
| 46 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 14 May 1791 | 1791-05-14 | I have not, I believe, written to you since I left Richmond. At Charleston, towards the last of... |
| 47 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 9 January 1795 | 1795-01-09 | Your letter of the 1st instt has been received, but not so soon after the date of it as might... |
| 48 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 17 September … | 1790-09-17 | Having received no letter from you since the one dated the 3d instant, I have nothing to reply... |
| 49 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 16 November 1796 | 1796-11-16 | I hardly know what apology to make for the positive manner, in which I declared the Certificate... |
| 50 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 22 July 1798 | 1798-07-22 | I am very sorry to learn by Mr. Dalton’s family (now here) that your ague and fever stick by you.... |
| 51 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 December 1794 | 1794-12-12 | Your letter of the 5th instt, and the Receipt for the second payment of the lots I purchased on... |
| 52 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 6 May 1796 | 1796-05-06 | This letter will be put into your hands by Mr Volney—who proposes to visit the Federal City. If... |
| 53 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 6 May 1794 | 1794-05-06 | Your letter of the 26th of Jany with a Postscript of the 30th of the same month, by Captn... |
| 54 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 4 April 1796 | 1796-04-04 | As your letter of the 30th. Ulto. gives me room to expect you here in a few days. I shall do no... |
| 55 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 20 September … | 1790-09-20 | The Servant who carried my letter of the 17th to the Post Office in Alexandria returned with... |
| 56 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 5 September 1790 | 1790-09-05 | After a pleasant Journey we arrived in this City about 2 O clock on thursday last. Tomorrow we... |
| 57 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 2 November 1795 | 1795-11-02 | Your letters of the 19th & [ ] Ult. came duly to hand; and I expected ’ere this to have been... |
| 58 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 January 1795 | 1795-01-12 | On friday last I wrote you a few lines, and assigned reasons for not writing more fully. In... |
| 59 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 27 March 1791 | 1791-03-27 | My attention was so much occupied the days preceeding my departure from Philadelphia, with... |
| 60 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 10 October 1790 | 1790-10-10 | Your letters of the 26th and 30th of the last, & 3d of the present month, have come duly to hand.... |
| 61 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 19 June 1791 | 1791-06-19 | Since my last to you (from this place) I have received your letters of the 12th immediately from... |
| 62 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 April 1793 | 1793-04-12 | I have received your letter of the 8th., but as I am on the eve of my return to Philadelphia, and... |
| 63 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 15 February 1796 | 1796-02-15 | On thursday last I received your letter of —— (now in the hands of Colo. Pickering, & date not... |
| 64 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 March 1793 | 1793-03-30 | Late this afternoon, and in company, I r[e]ceived your letter of yesterday’s date. Proposing to... |
| 65 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 21 June 1793 | 1793-06-21 | Your letter of the 17th came by the Post of yesterday—and as, by the purport of it, there is a... |
| 66 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 28 August 1794 | 1794-08-28 | It gave me very sincere pleasure to find by your letter of the 22d instt (which by the by did not... |
| 67 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 10 October 1791 | 1791-10-10 | Your letters of the 2d & 5th came to my hands on Saturday morning. Yesterday I allotted to... |
| 68 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 31 August 1794 | 1794-08-31 | On the 28th. I wrote you two letters. In one of them I intended (but forgot it) to have made a... |
| 69 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 3 June 1796 | 1796-06-03 | Your letter of the 30th Ulto was received yesterday. As I expect (nothing new & unforeseen... |
| 70 | Washington, George | Lear, Tobias | From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 26 December 1795 | 1795-12-26 | This letter will be handed to you by Captn Myers, of whom I have made mention in a former letter.... |