1790/08/24

Varick, Richard, 1753-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: accepting President George Washington's invitation

Written as Mayor of New York City. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.010

1791/01/19

Pintard, John M., ?-1811

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: to Tobias Lear

Invoice for Madeira wine. Same as GLC 2794.013, except this copy lacks the invoice included in GLC 2794.013. Including two letters from John M. Pintard, both dated 19 January 1791. "I have established a House of Business under the Firm of Pintard, Weston & Co. . . . . I feel a particular pleasure in having the honor to supply the President with the Madeira wine he may want." Mentions an invoice (missing). First leaf contains letter (by Pintard?) dated 7 December 1790: "I have established a House of Business under the Firm of Pintard, Weston & Co.," selling and shipping Madeira…

GLC02794.012

1791/01/19

Pintard, John M., ?-1811

Manuscript document signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: invoice for Madeira wine

Same as GLC 2794.012, except this copy contains the invoice lacking in GLC 2794.012. Including two letters from John M. Pintard re: an invoice for wine shipped to George Washington. Lacks 7 December 1790 fragment included in GLC 2794.012. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.013

1791/04/07

Platt, Richard, 1755-1830

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: presenting a "large salmon for Mrs. Washington."

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.014

1791/07/11

Wolcott, Oliver, Jr., 1760-1833

Letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: error at the Treasury Dept.

"I have taken measures for correcting the error, which happened in the Settlement at the Treasury . . . " Written in a clerk's hand. Wolcott was the Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury. Docketed on address leaf. Attached to GLC 2794.017.

GLC02794.016

1792/02/22

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: turning down an invitation to meet with President Washington

Randolph expresses his desire, and inability, to pay a "visit of respect, which is due to-day" to "the President and Mrs. Washington." Attached to GLC 2794.018.

GLC02794.021

1792/03/26

Blair, Samuel, 1741-1818

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: turning down an invitation to dine with President

Blair declines the invitation to dine with George Washington because of "the badness of the road from Germanton [. . . .] [I]ll health, & partly on other considerations." Docketed on address leaf. Written in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

GLC02794.023

1792/05/11

Pearce, William, fl. 1783

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: inviting President to see demonstration of his machine

"[I] should be glad to be informed when the President of the United States (George Washington) and his Lady, would be pleased to Honor me with their Company, to take a look at [my machinery]." Also notes: "Mr. [Alexander] Hamilton & Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson wishes to be there at the same time." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.025

1792/07/02

Clarkson, Nathaniel, fl. 1792

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: invitation for President George Washington from Mayor of Philadelphia

GLC02794.026

1793/09/01

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gouverneur Morris re: recommendation of Tobias Lear

Written as President to Morris, American Minister to France, recommending Lear: "[h]e is a person who possesses my entire friendship & confidence . . . ."

GLC02794.031

1793/11/05

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to M. de la Motte re: recommendation of Tobias Lear

Written in a clerk's hand while Jefferson was serving as Secretary of State, introducing Lear to de la Motte, Vice-Consul for the U.S. at Le Havre: "he is well known as the late Secretary of President Washington, and I can further assure you that he is a person of great understanding, descretion [sic], activity, & of the most perfect integrity."

GLC02794.033

1794/02/23

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Buchan, the Earl of Erskine re: a portrait of President George Washington by Trumbull and American neutrality.

Buchan, the Earl of Erskine, an English liberal in Edinburgh, Scotland, writes: "I am much pleased to find that the Portrait of our great good Washington meets your Lordship's approbation [. . . .] There is now with Mr. [Benjamin] West in London (lately sent over) a full length painting of the Rendering by Trumbull, which is perhaps the best ever taken of him-- and an engraving is to be made from it." "I find a pretty general apprehension occasion in this Country by the military preparations making in the U.S. as tending of a rupture with this Kingdom; but sure I am that the only object of…

GLC02794.036

1795/01/28

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary S. Lear [Tobias' mother] re: family matters

Lear apologizes for not writing his mother, complaining that, due to extensive business duties, "I find myself so closely and unremittingly engaged that I begin to feel the effects of it on my health--[.]" Includes lengthy riscussion of Lear's engagement to the niece of George Washington.

GLC02794.037

1795/09/03

Perkins, James, fl. 1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Tobias Lear

Introduction for Dr. May, who is moving to Washington. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.039

1795/12/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: recommending a man to work on canal locks

President Washington recommends an Englishman named Myers, whom he had interviewed.

GLC02794.040

1795/12/14

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear.

Survey of the Shenandoah River for an arsenal site written as Secretary of State. This item is adhered to GLC02794.027.

GLC02794.041

1796/11/16

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: misplaced Bank shares, Washington Custis' dislike of school

Written while serving as President. Apologizes for misplacing Bank of Columbia certificates, which he has found. Mentions business of Mr. [William?] Dandridge, and Washington Custis' difficulties adjusting to Princeton College. "Maria" is Anna Maria, the daughter of George Augustine Washington.

GLC02794.042

1800/07/24

Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816

Autograph letter

Title: to David Humphreys re: thanks for condolences, Washington family news

Written on behalf of Martha Washington: "she has a grateful heart for these tributes of respect & veneration paid to the memory of her dear deceased husband." Also gives news of the Washington family, especially marriages of George Washington's grandchildren.

GLC02794.043

1800/11/11

Washington, Martha, 1731-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Mary S. Lear re: Tobias Lear's health and illnesses in family and slaves

Mary Lear was Tobias Lear's mother. Contains much news of the Mount Vernon estate. "[A]ll my family whites, and Blacks, have been very sick, many of them very ill. -- Thank god they have all recovered again and I was so fortunate as not loose [sic] any of them --[.]" Martha Washington free frank on address leaf.

GLC02794.044

1801/08/01

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Document signed

Title: Circular to Consuls and Commercial Agents of the U.S. from Dept. of State

re: Certification of foreign ships bought by American citizens, and setting protocol for overseas trade.

GLC02794.047

1802/06/09

Dodge, Amite, fl. 1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: rumors of a covert deal for gun powder

Dodge expresses concern that Americans were making covert deals for powder. "[A] letter has been intercepted from [illegible] to some of his friends here in which he says, By all means comply with the agreemt. with the Americans for Powder . . . . This is in every body's mouth." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.049

1803/04

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Document signed

Title: Circular to the Consuls &c. of the United States from Dept. of State

Transmitting an act of Congress for the protection of seamen and concerning compliance with the act.

GLC02794.050

1803/07/14

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: instructions for relations with the Dey of Algiers

Written as Secretary of State to Lear, who was serving as American Consul General at Algiers. Madison's letter of instruction concerns paying the annual tribute to Algiers, handling forged American passports, etc. A postscript adds: "the universal toleration in matters of religion established in most of our states, and the entire want of power respecting them in the general government, has, we understand, induced the Barbary powers to view us more favorably than other Christian nations, who are exclusively so, and with whom these powers consider themselves in perpetual hostility, suspended…

GLC02794.052

1803/07/19

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter

Title: To: Bey of Tunis.

Copy of letter announcing appointment of Lear as Consul, with clerical countersignature of James Madison. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.053

1949/11/28

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dean Acheson re: thanking him for seeing him off for vacation

Written as President on "Flying White House" stationery. Accompanied by a typed transcript of Acheson's reply. Acheson was Secretary of State.

GLC02793.090