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Tobias Lear to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, regarding a portrait of George Washington by John Trumbull and American neutrality, 23 February 1794
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Tobias Lear to David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, regarding a portrait of George Washington by John Trumbull and American neutrality, 23 February 1794.
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Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
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Erskine, the Earl of Buchan, an English liberal in Edinburgh, Scotland, writes: I am much pleased to find that the Portrait of our great good Washington meets your Lordship's approbation [. . . .] There is now with Mr. [Benjamin] West in London (lately sent over) a full length painting of the Rendering by Trumbull, which is perhaps the best ever taken of him-- and an engraving is to be made from it. I find a pretty general apprehension occasion in this Country by the military preparations making in the U.S. as tending of a rupture with this Kingdom; but sure I am that the only object of such preparations is to enable the U.S. to preserve with dignity & energy that System of neutrality which they have adopted. A draft was kept by Lear.
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American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
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Language
English
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March 18, 2024
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American history module 1
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Correspondence
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