Episode 12: The Daemon Of Playfullness

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

Tobias Lear to Catherine Littlefield Greene (Miller), 20 April 1790. In which George Washington's secretary gets flirty on a boat trip, on the way to propose to his childhood sweetheart. Yes, it's weird. Featuring the return of Mary Wigge as an excellent guest host! More sources: Tobias Lear - https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/tobias-lear Brighton, Ray. 1985. The checkered career of Tobias Lear. Portsmouth, NH: Portsmouth Marine Society. Catharine Littlefield Greene Miller - https://wams.nyhistory.org/settler-colonialism-and-revolution/the-american-revolution/catharine-littlefield-greene-miller/ Stegeman, John F., and Janet A. Stegeman. 1986. Caty: a biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene. Athens: University of Georgia Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=ayQaAQAAIAAJ. Greene to Hamilton, 30 May 1790 - https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0323