BIB_ID
119832
Accession number
MA 488.147
Creator
Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1809-1894.
Display Date
1887 Jan. 6.
Credit line
Gift of Henry Benjamin Whipple, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Pages [3-4] are an autograph copy of an earlier (Oct. 1884) letter from Robert C. Winthrop to Bishop Whipple in which Winthrop traces the provenance of the strand of George Washington's hair.
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This letter accompanies a strand of hair from the head of George Washington; the hair is mounted on the same page and described in a separate record (MA 488.146).
This item is part of a collection of letters and documents concerning the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis; see main record for MA 488-489 for more information.
This letter accompanies a strand of hair from the head of George Washington; the hair is mounted on the same page and described in a separate record (MA 488.146).
Summary
Sending him a hair from the head of George Washington and giving its provenance.
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