ALS : Philadelphia, to the Earl of Buchan, 1792 Jan. 22.

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ALS : Philadelphia, to the Earl of Buchan, 1792 Jan. 22.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541912

Concerns a portrait of Washington painted for the earl by Archibald Robertson, and the earl's gift to Washington of some volumes of James Anderson's agricultural journal The Bee.

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Rosenbach Museum & Library

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Rosenbach Museum & Library

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Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829

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