From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 August 1798

To Tobias Lear

Thursday night 30th. Augt. 1798.

Dear Sir,

I have, at length, received the President’s answer (through the Secretary of War) to my request to be allowed a Secretary, who gives it as his opinion that I have an undoubted right to one, or all of my military family, if I find it convenient, and that their pay &c. will be allowed.

And the Secretary having thrown a mass of Papers upon me which I have not looked into (being this moment arrived) I should be glad if you would now come & take your station.1 Yrs. always & Affectly.

Letters and Recollections of George Washington, description begins Letters and Recollections of George Washington: Being Letters to Tobias Lear and others between 1790 and 1799, showing the First American in the management of his estate and domestic affairs. With a diary of Washington’s last days, kept by Mr. Lear. New York, 1906. description ends 126.

1. See James McHenry to GW, 25 August.

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Title: From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 August 1798
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Lear, Tobias
Date: 30 August 1798

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Tobias Lear, 30 August 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0446. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 569–570.]

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