Tobias Lear to Elbridge Gerry, 8 December 1791
Tobias Lear to Elbridge Gerry
Philadelphia, 8 Dec. 1791. Having received “the Pears and the curious fluted Cymbling which Mr. Gerry has been so good as to send them,” the president and Mrs. Washington “beg his acceptance of their best thanks for this mark of polite attention.”1
George D. Smith catalog #172, 1912–13, item 521.
1. Cymling was a contemporary name for pattypan squash ( 62).