Washington, George (1732-1799) to the Marquis de Lotbiniere
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00639.29 Author/Creator: Washington, George (1732-1799) Place Written: Mount Vernon Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 August 1788 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 23 x 18 cm. Order a Copy
A kind letter in which Washington thanks the Marquis for his friendly sentiments. New York's ratification of the Constitution had been uncertain. Docketed on verso of second leaf. Lotbiniere's letter is in LC's Washington Papers. Noted but not published in Fitzpatrick 30:56n.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
Mount Vernon Augt. 18th. 1788.
Sir,
Your congratulatory letter, on the adoption of the Constitution by the Convention of New York, has been placed in my hands: and I have in return, to request that you will be assured it would be incompatible with the feelings of the good Citizens of America to be insensible to the friendly sentiments expressed by patriotic foreigners for their public felicity. -
For myself, it might be superfluous to add more than that I remain, with due impressions for your partiality in my favour,
Sir,
Yr. most Obedient &
most Hble Servant
Go:Washington
The Marquis de Lotbiniere
[docket:]
1788. -
Mount Vernon.
Augt. 18th.
G. Washington.
to the Marquis de
Lotbiniere -
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