1796/09/20

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Pamphlet

Title: The President's address to the people... [farewell address -- proof copy]

The only separate book printing, by J. Ormrod and Conrad. With proof reader's notes and marks. Signature of Robert Meir on first page. Howes WI43, Sabin 101579

GLC02556

1796/09/17

Hudson & Goodwin, fl. 1787-1800

Broadside

Title: Address of the late General George Washington, to the citizens of the United States, on declining a re-election to the office of president.

An early broadside printing by Hudson and Goodwin. In this speech, George Washington declines a re-election to the office of President and offers counsel on governance to the country. Two signatures on verso.

GLC02557

1796/03/07

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Document signed

Title: Treaty between the U.S. and the Dey & Regency of Algiers (c/s Timothy Pickering)

Signed as President and countersigned by Pickering as Secretary of State. English translation from the Arabic with clerical signatures for Vizier Hassan Bashan (the Dey of Algiers), Joseph Donaldson Jr. (American negotiator) and David Humphreys (American Minister to Portugal).

GLC02794.001

1789/08/24

Prince, William, fl. 1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: lack of good fruit to send to President

Unable to fulfill Lear's request to send a fruit basket to George Washington because of poor crop. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.005

1789/10/18

Sullivan, James, 1744-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: President Washington's upcoming visit

Governor John Hancock's desire to house President Washington during his visit. "Should the President take any other lodgings besides at the Govrs house it will hurt the feelings of the Governor . . . ." Sullivan was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer.

GLC02794.007

1789/10/23

Langdon, John, 1741-1819

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: inviting Washington to stay at Langdon's house

Langdon, Governor of New Hampshire, writes: "I now inclose you a letter to the President. Inviting him to accept of my house while here which you will please deliver--" Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.008

1789/12/24

Livingston, J.H., fl. 1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: thanks for charity gift from President Washington

"The attention of the President of the United States to the Charity School under the care of the Dutch Church in this City is very acceptable [. . . .] Please to accept my thanks . . ." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.009

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

1789/08/04

Otis, Samuel A., 1740-1814

Letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: Corbin Braxton as surveyor for the Port of Richmond

Written in a clerk's hand, signed and docketed by Samuel A. Otis. Names "Corbin Braxton as Surveyor of the Port of Richmond in Virginia in the Stead of David Lambert." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.004

1789/10/08

Lambert, William, fl. 1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear

Lambert transmits a report from Alexander Hamilton, Secretery of the Treasury. Lambert writes for John Beckley, Clerk of the House of Representatives.

GLC02794.006

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

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

1791/10/20

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: transport of "Steam Jack" and visit to Philadelphia

Written as the Collector at the Port of Boston. Attached to GLC 2794.021. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.018

1791/11/07

Wadsworth, James, 1730-1817

Autograph note signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: transmittal note

Transmitting unknown document. Wadsworth was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army.

GLC02794.019

1792/01/10

Harrison, Richard, 1750-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear

Harrison writes from the Auditor's Office: "I request the favor of your informing me on what day William Lewis Esquire resigned his Commission as Judge of the district of Pennsylvania." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.020

1792/03/23

Peale, Charles Wilson, 1741-1827

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: a donation to Peale's Museum in Philadelphia

Requesting to make "the donation to the Museum" in Lear's name. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.022

1792/04/26

Otis, Samuel A., 1740-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: sending Journals of the Senate

"I send you for the use of the President of the United States two setts of Journals of Senate . . . ." Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.024