Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813) to Tobias Lear re: turning down an invitation to meet with President Washington
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.021 Author/Creator: Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813) Place Written: Philadelphia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1792/02/22 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 24 x 20 cm Order a Copy
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.
Written on the date of Washington's sixtieth birthday.
Philadelphia Feby 22.1792.
Dr. Sir
The visit of respect, which is due to-day, it was my most earnest intention to have paid. For I connect with it a personal attachment, not dependent on any official relation. But I am unfortunately deprived of this gratification by the continuance of the disorder, which I mentioned to you in my note of yesterday. Permit me; therefore, to request you to communicate this circumstance to the President and Mrs Washington, when an easy opportunity shall offer itself. As I am confident, that I need not express to either of them the genuine sensations, which the occasion calls forth in my breast I have only to hope, that I may long be able to render them both my affectionate congratulations on the return of this day.
I am dear sir
with sincere esteem
yr. mo. ob. serv.
Edm: Randolph.
P.S. you will readily perceive, that this note is designed to be destitute of form, and not to produce a single word in reply.
[Docket]
From
Edmund Randolph Esq
24 Feby 1792
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