Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of George Washington family papers

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania collection of George Washington family papers

1675-1831

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474451

This artificial collection contains miscellaneous documents on the Washington family, 1675-1831, including legal papers, surveys, correspondence, loose accounts; George Washington letters, 1770-1799; Washington pocket diary, Jan. 1 - June 21, 1796, primarily weather records; Washington household journal, 1793-1797, while in Philadelphia; Martha Washington's "A Booke of Cookery" and "A Booke of Sweetmeats," a fair 17th century copy of an earlier manuscript; subscription book to aid William A. Washington, Owensboro, Ky., grand-nephew of George Washington, 1883; and facsimile of "Gen. George Washington's Account with the United States, from 1775 to 1783, as written by himself," American Publishing Company, 1857. Pocket diary, 1796 published in P.M.H.B., 37 (1913): 230-239 and in The Diaries of George Washington edited by Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Household journal published in the P.M.H.B., 29 (1905): 385-406; 30 (1906): 30-56, 159-186, 309-331, 459-478; 31 (1907): 53-82, 176-194, 320-350. "A Booke of Cookery" and "A Booke of Sweatmeats" published in Martha Washington's Book of Cookery, edited and annotated by Karen Hess.

1.5 Linear feet 1.5 linear feet, 10 volumes

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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