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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Collection of autograph letters and documents of George Washington, 1755-1796.

BIB_ID
136729
Accession number
MA 878.1-22
Display Date
1755-1796.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 box (22 items), unbound ; size varies
Notes
Housed with MA 1038, an autograph letter signed to Secretary of State Timothy Pickering, dated Mount Vernon, 27 June 1796.
Summary
Collection consists of 15 letters signed (MA 878.1-15), ten of which are autograph; an autograph plan of a line of march and order of battle (MA 878.16); a signed ticket for the Mountain Road lottery (MA 878.17); two autograph receipts to bills (MA 878.18-19); a signed honorable discharge certificate (MA 878.20); a leaf (2 p.) from Washington's autograph first draft of his first inaugural address (MA 878.21); and a leaf (2 p.) of autograph notes on an unidentified book on agriculture (MA 878.20). Items have been individually cataloged in 22 records (MA 878.1-22); see related records for full description.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (40.2 cm)