To George Washington from Clement Biddle, 8 June 1797
From Clement Biddle
Philad[elphia] June 8. 1797.
Dear Sir
By Mr W. Bowie of Georgetown, who Undertakes to forward them,1 I have sent you the Unguent delamere and Smiths Comparative view of the Constitutions’—The picture frames are in forwardness and shall come by the first Opportunity by Water. I am very respectfully Your most Obedt & very huml. servt
Clement Biddle
Morse’s Gazetteer is not yet published but daily expected here from New York.2
ALS, DLC:GW.
1. Washington Bowie (1776–1826), who was named for GW, was a merchant in Georgetown, Maryland.
2. See GW’s order in GW to Biddle, 28 May, n.3. Biddle wrote below his signature:
| Unguent de la Mere | 4. |
| smiths Constitutions | 1.25 |
| $5.25 |
Jedidiah Morse sent to GW on this day a copy of his Gazetteer.