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Epistles domestic, confidential, and official, from General Washington. Written about the commencement of the American contest, when he entered on the command of the army of the United States. With an interesting series of his letters, particularly to the British admirals, Arbuthnot and Digby; to General Sir Henry Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, Sir Guy Carleton, Marquis de la Fayette, &c. &c. To Benjamin Harrison, esq., speaker of the House of delegates in Virginia, to Admiral the Count de Grasse, General Sullivan, respecting an attack of New-York; including many applications and addresses presented to him, with his answers: orders and instructions, on important occasions, to his aids de camp, &c. &c. &c. None of which have been printed in the two volumes published a few months ago.

Accession number
PML 3678
Published
New York, Printed by G. Robinson and J. Bull, 1796.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A.s. C.I. Bushnell on fly-leaf, a.s. Port au Prince June 1797 R.W. Meade, on prelim. leaf.
Pages 1-100 are reprints of the spurious letters "printed in the Year 1778."
The authorship of the spurious letters has been attributed to John Vardill and John Randolph.
Description
xiv p., 1 l., 303 p. front. (port.) 22 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
1/2 beige calf.
Classification
Department