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Tobias Lear to Elbridge Gerry, 8 December 1791

Tobias Lear to Elbridge Gerry

Philadelphia, 8 Dec. 1791. Having received “the Pears and the curious fluted Cymbling which Mr. Gerry has been so good as to send them,” the president and Mrs. Washington “beg his acceptance of their best thanks for this mark of polite attention.”1

George D. Smith catalog #172, 1912–13, item 521.

1. Cymling was a contemporary name for pattypan squash (Shannon, American Dictionary of Culinary Terms, description begins Ellen C. Shannon. American Dictionary of Culinary Terms: A Comprehensive Guide to the Vocabulary of the Kitchen. New York, 1962. description ends 62).

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    “Tobias Lear to Elbridge Gerry, 8 December 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-09-02-0158. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 23 September 1791 – 29 February 1792, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 266–267.]