Letter, Tobias Lear to Clement Biddle

Containers:
Box 18, Folder 1790.08.26
Creator:
Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 and Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814
Scope and content:

A.L.S. 4 pages. New York. Received bill and receipt for German-English dictionary -- please keep [silver?] waiter (serving tray) there until remove to Philadelphia -- President reaches Philadelphia about September 3 -- engage lodgings at Mrs. Mary House's [at 5th and Market St.] in Philadelphia for George Washington and family and stables for horses at Jacob Hiltzhimers -- if lodging not available there, then at city tavern -- gives proposed itinerary of President's trip to Philadelphia -- plea for no more parade and ceremony than necessary -- he (Lear) will remain in New York a few more days -- gives number of rooms needed for those in President's party, and delineates who is in the group (including 2 maids, 4 white servants and 4 black servants). Autograph letter signed, draft, laminated, docketed by Lear(?), watermark. Name on original manuscript appears as "T. Lear."

Language:
English .

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