George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 5 April 1797

From Timothy Pickering

Philadelphia April 5. 1797.

Sir

Of the letters received from Mr King, those which I forwarded this morning were addressed to General Washington: two others, one addressed to the President of the U.S., and one to G.W. President of the U.S., I retained, under the idea that they were official, and presented them to Mr Adams: but he was inclined to think them intended for you personally; and therefore I now do myself the honor to inclose them. If they are official, you will have the goodness to return them.1 With great respect I am your most obt servt

Timothy Pickering

P.S. Genl Pinckney has been refused by the Directory, with the marks of indignity indicated by the public papers; and about the 28th of Jany (after they recd the news of Buonoparte’s last fatal success) they ordered him to leave France. He was to set out for Amsterdam on the 31st where he will wait for instructions.2

ALS, DLC:GW; retained copy, MHi: Pickering Papers.

1. For two of the letters sent by Rufiis King, see note 5 in Pickering’s first letter of this date. The other two letters forwarded from London have not been identified.

2. See James McHenry to GW, 24 Mar., n.1.

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    To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 5 April 1797
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    “To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 5 April 1797,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-01-02-0055. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1797 – 30 December 1797, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 75–76.]

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