Letters from General Washington, to several of his friends in the year 1776. : In which are set forth, a fairer and fuller view of American politics, than ever yet transpired, or the public could be made acquainted with through any other channel. : Together with the Reverend Jacob Duche's (late chaplain to the Congress) letter to Mr. Washington, and an answer to it, by Mr. John Parke, a lieutenant-colonel in Mr. Washington's army.

Accession number

PML 3677

Published

[New York] : Printed [by James Rivington], in the year 1778.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

Ascribed to the press of James Rivington by Evans.
Seven spurious letters - Washington later declared them to be forgeries.
Spurious letters first published in London in 1777, variously attributed to John Vardill ("Poplicola") and to John Randolph. Cf. Ford, W.C. The spurious letters attributed to Washington, 1889.
Two items published in Ireland, bound in.

Description

[2], 52 [i.e 53], [1] p. (last p. blank) ; 18 cm.

Provenance

From the Theodore Irwin collection.

Binding

Calf.

Classification

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