From George Washington to Clement Biddle, 30 March 1789
To Clement Biddle
Mount Vernon 30th March 1789
Dear Sir,
I have received your letter of the 23d Inst. and am in hopes that the Buckwheat will arrive in season.
I will thank you to send me, by the first post after this reaches you, fourteen yards of Livery lace agreeably to the enclosed pattern; and let it be directed to me, or, in my absence, to Major George Augne Washington at this place.1 With great regard, I am, Dear Sir, Yr most Obedt Hble Servt
Go: Washington
LS, PHi: Washington-Biddle Correspondence; LB, DLC:GW.
1. GW left his nephew in charge of Mount Vernon when he left for New York in April. See GW to George Augustine Washington, 31 Mar. 1789.