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Letter to Clement Biddle, November
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TRANSCRIPT GLC 3903
George Washington. Autograph letter signed, Mount Vernon, to Clement Biddle, 1797 Nov. 28. 1 p.
Mount Vernon 28 Nov[embe]r 1797
Dear Sir,
I have lately received a letter from a Mr. Small of Philadelphia, informing me that the Coach I used in the City, was yet unsold; that it was accumulating expence; and not more than two hundred dollars had been offered for it; when, according to his acct, $300 was the value fixed thereon.
I intended to have sent his letter to you, but it has been mislaid, or lost. I shall beg the favour of you, however, to sell, or cause it to be sold, for whatever it will fetch. Who limited the price to $300 I know not, but took it for granted that it had been disposed of many a day ago. Receive, and place the proceeds to the credit of
Dear Sir
Your Most Obed[ien]t Serv[an]t
Go: Washington
Col. Clem[en]t Biddle
Notes: Fitzpatrick, Writings of Washington, 36: 79. Colonel Clement Biddle – Deputy Quartermaster General.
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