[Letter and autograph] / G. Washington.

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[Letter and autograph] / G. Washington.

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Letter, 1783 Apr. 6, Headqs. [to] Lt. Col. Smith. Washington gives Smith instructions concerning a British officer being sent out by Sir Guy Carleton. The officer is to be sent or escorted to Washington as he has "agreable intelligence." -- Autograph from a fragment of a printed document. Washington signs as President of the United States, along with Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State, and Nathaniel F. Fosdick, collector of Portland & Falmouth.

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