From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 April 1793
To Tobias Lear
Mount Vernon, April 12th. 1793.
Dear Sir,
I have received your letter of the 8th., but as I am on the eve of my return to Philadelphia, and have many letters to write, I shall do little more than acknowledge the receipt of it. The advices which I may receive by the Post to-night, will decide whether I shall proceed by the direct rout—or by the one I intended to have come.1
The enclosed from the Attorney General I return to him through your hands, that an account and Copy of it may be taken before you give it to him, wch. should be as soon as convenient.2
I always receive the information you convey, and your sentiments upon political or other subjects with pleasure—no apology therefore was necessary for these offered in your letter of the above date. I was sorry to learn by a letter from Mrs. Washingn. that little Lincoln has been unwell.3 I hope he is quite recovered. My best wishes attend him,—Mrs. Lear—& yourself and I am always—Your sincere friend & Affecte. Servant.
Printed copy, in Lear, Letters and Recollections, 65–66.
1. GW departed Mount Vernon on 13 April and reached Philadelphia on 17 April (GW to James Keith, 13 April; 107). For GW’s proposed alternative route to Philadelphia, see GW to Lear, 8 April, and note 6.
2. The enclosed letter to GW from Edmund Randolph, possibly concerning the propriety of Théophile Cazenove as a buyer for some of GW’s lands, has not been found (GW to Lear, 8 April, and note 2).
3. Martha Washington’s letter to GW, in which she mentioned the illness of two-year-old Benjamin Lincoln Lear, has not been found.