George Washington Papers

[Diary entry: 8 October 1797]

8. Clear, brisk Southerly Wind. Mer. 65. Mrs. Stuart & two of her daughters came to dinner as did Mr. Lear. Mr. La Tombe went awy.

mr. la tombe: GW means Louis Saint Ange Morel, chevalier de La Colombe, who came on the previous day. He has confused the name with that of Philippe André Joseph de Létombe, the current French minister plenipotentiary to the United States.

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    [Diary entry: 8 October 1797]
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    Washington, George
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    8 October 1797

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    “[Diary entry: 8 October 1797],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-06-02-0006-0010-0008. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 6, 1 January 1790 – 13 December 1799, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 261.]