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Otis, Samuel A. to Tobias Lear re: sending Journals of the Senate

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02794.024 Author/Creator: Otis, Samuel A. Place Written: [New York] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1792/04/26 Pagination: 1 p. + address 24.5 x 20 cm Order a Copy

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

Dear Sir,
I send you for the use of The President of the United States two setts [sic] of journal of Senate as far as they are finished, I am
Sir

your most humble Ser[vant]
Sam .A. Otis

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