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- GLC#
- GLC02794.011-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 18, 1790
- Author/Creator
- Pintard, John, fl. 1790-1811
- Title
- to Tobias Lear
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address Height: 18.6 cm, Width: 8 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Pintard asks Lear for permission to publish a sketch in "New York" magazine: "I mentioned to you when at the President's that I should take it as a particular favor if you would allow a sketch to be taken of the drawing of the Bastile & the key." (Referring to the model of the Bastile and its key, presented to President Washington by Lafayette, and still at Mount Vernon.) Pintard writes "King Street" in Boston as his address. Docketed on address leaf.
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