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From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 18 February 1799

To Clement Biddle

Mount Vernon Feby 18th 1799

Dear Sir

Your letter and a/c current, with the Bills enclosed, have been duly received;1 and under cover of this letter I send you One hundred Dollars to be placed to my Credit.

Ellwood has not yet called upon me, nor is he arrived at Alexandria that I have heard of.

I thank you for the information respecting the price of Flour; and shall be obliged by your mentioning of it occasionally; especially if the event you alluded to should cause a rise, or depression according to the issue. I am—Dear Sir Your most Obedt Hble Servt

Go: Washington

P.S. Remember the Lucerne & White Clover Seeds, written for in my last letter.2

ALS, PHi: Washington-Biddle Correspondence; ALS (letterpress copy), DLC:GW.

1. Biddle to GW, 5 February.

2. GW to Biddle, 1 February.

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    “From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 18 February 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-03-02-0286. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 16 September 1798 – 19 April 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot and Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 386.]

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