WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799), President . Autograph letter signed ("G: o Washington"), to Thomas R. Tilghman, Mount Vernon, 4 June 1786. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with color portrait of Washington . FINE.
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799), President . Autograph letter signed ("G: o Washington"), to Thomas R. Tilghman, Mount Vernon, 4 June 1786. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with color portrait of Washington . FINE. A WARM TRIBUTE TO A FORMER AIDE-DE-CAMP AS WASHINGTON EXPRESSES "REGARD FOR THE MEMORY OF YOUR DECEASED BROTHER" TENCH TILGHMAN An exceptionally fresh and fine Washington letter, as he accepts Thomas Tilghman's offer to continue his late brother's role as Washington's Baltimore agent. "I have to acknowledge the politeness of the offer contained in your letter of the 26th...," Washington writes, "and to thank you for the disinterestedness of it. I shall have no scruple to accept (in the small way I am in) the services you obligingly tendered me as proofs of my sensibility for your kindness, and regard for the memory of y r deceased Brother, who I well knew, took pleasure in executing little matters I had to do in Baltimore..." Tench Tilghman (1744-1786), who died less than two months before, had been Washington's aide-de-camp since the Battle of New York in 1776 straight through to Yorktown in 1781, and Washington gave him the signal honor of carrying the signed instruments of surrender from Yorktown to the Congress in Philadelphia. After the war he went into business with Robert Morris in Baltimore and served as his former chief's factor in that city. His death was a severe blow to Washington, who told Tilghman's grieving father on June 5 that apart from the Tilghman family, "none could have felt his death with more regard than I did--No one entertained a higher opinion of his worth, or had imbibed sentiments of greater friendship for him than I had done" (Washington to James Tilghman, 5 June 1786, Abbot, The Papers of George Washington , Confederation Series, 4:96). Published (with variations) in Fitzpatrick, 28:449.
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799), President . Autograph letter signed ("G: o Washington"), to Thomas R. Tilghman, Mount Vernon, 4 June 1786. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with color portrait of Washington . FINE.
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799), President . Autograph letter signed ("G: o Washington"), to Thomas R. Tilghman, Mount Vernon, 4 June 1786. 1 page, 4to, matted and framed with color portrait of Washington . FINE. A WARM TRIBUTE TO A FORMER AIDE-DE-CAMP AS WASHINGTON EXPRESSES "REGARD FOR THE MEMORY OF YOUR DECEASED BROTHER" TENCH TILGHMAN An exceptionally fresh and fine Washington letter, as he accepts Thomas Tilghman's offer to continue his late brother's role as Washington's Baltimore agent. "I have to acknowledge the politeness of the offer contained in your letter of the 26th...," Washington writes, "and to thank you for the disinterestedness of it. I shall have no scruple to accept (in the small way I am in) the services you obligingly tendered me as proofs of my sensibility for your kindness, and regard for the memory of y r deceased Brother, who I well knew, took pleasure in executing little matters I had to do in Baltimore..." Tench Tilghman (1744-1786), who died less than two months before, had been Washington's aide-de-camp since the Battle of New York in 1776 straight through to Yorktown in 1781, and Washington gave him the signal honor of carrying the signed instruments of surrender from Yorktown to the Congress in Philadelphia. After the war he went into business with Robert Morris in Baltimore and served as his former chief's factor in that city. His death was a severe blow to Washington, who told Tilghman's grieving father on June 5 that apart from the Tilghman family, "none could have felt his death with more regard than I did--No one entertained a higher opinion of his worth, or had imbibed sentiments of greater friendship for him than I had done" (Washington to James Tilghman, 5 June 1786, Abbot, The Papers of George Washington , Confederation Series, 4:96). Published (with variations) in Fitzpatrick, 28:449.
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