1. Linn probably sent GW a copy of his The Blessings of America. A Sermon, Preached in the Middle Dutch Church, on the Fourth July, 1791, Being the Anniversary of the Independence of America: at the Request of the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, 1791) which condemned Edmund Burke and praised the spirit of revolution in Europe. This was bound with other pamphlets in a volume entitled “Cincinnati” in GW’s library at Mount Vernon at his death (Griffin, Boston Athenæum Washington Collection, description begins Appleton P. C. Griffin, comp. A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenæum. Cambridge, Mass., 1897. description ends 47, 125). Lear wrote Linn on 21 Oct. that “the multiplicity of business” after GW’s “return from his southern tour” and “his late absence from the seat of government” delayed acknowledgment of Linn’s letter (DLC:GW). The copyist mistakenly addressed this letter to William Lind. Lear also acknowledged in the same letter the volume of sermons Linn sent to Mrs. Washington, probably his Sermons Historical and Characteristical, copyrighted on 1 June 1791 (Evans, American Bibliography, description begins Charles Evans et al. American Bibliography and Supplement. 16 vols. Chicago, Worcester, Mass., and Charlottesville, Va., 1903–71. description ends 8:171).