From George Washington to Samuel Lewis, Sr., 29 September 1799

To Samuel Lewis, Sr.

Mount Vernon 29th Septr 1799

Sir,

I thank you for the trouble you have taken to explain the omission in the regularity of forwarding the Gazettes. I had ascribed it to the cause you have mentioned before the receipt of your letter of the 20th instant.1

I am not anxious to complete a file of the Aurora. If however, when Colo. Lear (my Secretary, & at present absent) returns, any of the numbers are missing, I may, probably, give you the trouble of replacing—or rather—filling them up.2 I am Sir Your obedt Humble Servant

Go: Washington

ALS, PHi: Washington manuscripts.

1. Letter not found. Lewis was a clerk in the War Department.

2. For Tobias Lear’s trip to the mountains, see Presly Thornton to GW, 16 Sept., n.4.

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Title: From George Washington to Samuel Lewis, Sr., 29 September 1799
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Lewis, Samuel Sr.
Date: 29 September 1799

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Samuel Lewis, Sr., 29 September 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0277. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 329.]