From George Washington to Edmund Jennings Lee, 3 September 1798

To Edmund Jennings Lee

Monday Sept. 3d [17]98.

General Washington presents his compliments to Mr Edmund Lee, and requests the pleasure of his company to dine today with Genl Marshall and Mr Bd Washington.1

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1. Apparently Edmund Jennings Lee did not accept GW’s invitation. GW wrote in his diary on 3 Sept.: “In the Morning to breakfast came Genl. [John] Marshall & Mr. Bushrod Washington and to dinner the Atty. Genl. Chas. Lee Mr. [William] Herbert Mr. [James] Keith & Doc. [James] Craik” (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:314).

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Title: From George Washington to Edmund Jennings Lee, 3 September 1798
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: Lee, Edmund Jennings
Date: 3 September 1798

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Cite as: “From George Washington to Edmund Jennings Lee, 3 September 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0452. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 2 January 1798 – 15 September 1798, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 580.]

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