Washington Irving's Life of George Washington
Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838
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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington
Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838
Portraits, prints, letters, documents, and manuscripts (with printed version) tipped into Volume 12 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898) Portraits: Washington Irving (2, 1 with autograph), George Washington, Cornwallis, Lafayette (2, 1 in color), Count de Grasse, Richard Henry Lee, William White, John Brooks, Napoleon, James Madison, John Adams (2), Samuel Osgood (2, 1 with autograph), Walter Livingston (with autograph), George Washington Parke Custis (with autograph), Mrs. Washington, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson (with autograph), John Blair, Robert Hanson Harrison, Fisher Ames, Thomas Jefferson (2), Louis 16th, Governeur Morris. Prints: Ende der Feindseeligkeiten. Die Engländer räumen den Americanern Neu Yorck ein.--1783; Mt Vernon, Residence of Washington; Early Days of Washington; [Martha Washington, Miss Custis, servant]; General Putnam's Escape from the British at Horse-neck; Washington Presiding in the Convention 1787; [Two men, a woman, and a baby in a boat fishing]; East View of Baltimore, Maryland; Sunnyside. Residence of Washington Irving; Inaugeration of Washington at the Old City Hall 1789; Fraunces' Tavern; Washington Taking Leave of His Mother; The First Cabinet. Letters: ALS, John Trumbull to John Taliaferro, May 24, 1838; AL[draft], John Trumbull to the Editors of the American [in defense of Benjamin West], [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln, May 25, 1790; ALS, Tobias Lear to Messers. Adam Stewart & Co., March 19, 1790; AL, Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hare, June 27 [1789]; ALS, Tobias Lear to William Pierce, October 6, 1795; A[aman.]LS, John Jay to William Carmichael, December 1, 1786; ALS, William Pierce to Edward Telfair, Governor of Georgia, January 29, 1786; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to John Trumbull, May 16, 1800; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Mifflin to John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia, April 21-22, 1784; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to Stephen van Rensselaer, March 6, 1810; ALS, Sam Nicholson to Arthur Lee, January 9-10, 1778; A[aman.]LS, George Clinton to Aaron Burr, March 27, 1790; ALS, U.S. Board of Treasury to Philip Schuyler [signed by Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, and Arthur Lee], July 17, 1788; ALS, Samuel Osgood to Samuel Holten, May 14, 1782; ALS, Arthur Lee to [?], August 4, 1769; ALS, James Madison Jr. to Auditors of the Public Accounts, Virginia, September 25, 1780; ALS, Henry Knox to William Hull, May 6, 1792; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, October 20, 1795; ALS, Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, June 11, 1791; ALS, David Humphreys to Samuel Parker, September 2, 1803; ALS, Samuel Bard to Judge Thomson, February 6, 1812; A[aman.]LS, Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, May 13, 1790. Letters (continued): ALS, Edmund Randolph to Charles Simms, February 6, 1791; ALS, John Rutledge to Henry Lanney, July 18, 1778; ALS, [Virginia. Commission to treat with the Ohio Indians] to Edmond Pendleton [signed by Thomas Walker, Andrew Lewis, James Wood, Adam Stephen, J. Walker], October 20, 1775; ALS, Governeur Morris to Jonathan Dayton, July 8, 1807. Documents: D[printed]S, U.S. Board of Commissioner of the Federal city, Warrant [entitling Samuel Blodget, Jr. to share #319 of loan to City of Washington, signed by Thomas Johnson, David Stuart, and Daniel Carroll], May 18, 1792. Manuscripts: AM[draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM[final draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM, [advertisement for a print of "General Washington Resigning his Commission..."], [n.d.] Printed: "General Washington."
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