BIB_ID
136817
Accession number
MA 1014
Creator
Washington, Martha, 1731-1802, sender.
Display Date
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 August 28.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.2 x 18.8 cm
Notes
The recipient is Martha Washington's sister known as "Nancy."
Formerly bound with a letter from George Washington to Tobias Lear (MA 999.1), Company Orders issued by Captain Joseph McIlvaine on the death of General Washington (MA 999.2), two additional letters by Martha Washington (MA 1000 and 1008) and a letter from Abigail Adams (MA 1018). These letters were bound together at the Library after being individually acquired; this synthetic collection was disbound in 2015, and the binding was retained.
Formerly bound with a letter from George Washington to Tobias Lear (MA 999.1), Company Orders issued by Captain Joseph McIlvaine on the death of General Washington (MA 999.2), two additional letters by Martha Washington (MA 1000 and 1008) and a letter from Abigail Adams (MA 1018). These letters were bound together at the Library after being individually acquired; this synthetic collection was disbound in 2015, and the binding was retained.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. from the W.K. Arnold sale, 1924.
Summary
Relating the news of troop movements; saying "I thank god we shant want men -- The army at New York is very large and numbers of men are still going there is at this time in the city, four thousand on their march to the camp and the Virginias is duly Expected;" relating news of family and friends.
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