An edition of Original autograph letters, from General Washington to Joseph Reed, during the American Revolution
(1874)
Original autograph letters, from General Washington to Joseph Reed, during the American Revolution
many of which have not been published..
by George Washington
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Original autograph letters, from General Washington to Joseph Reed, during the American Revolution: many of which have not been published..
1874, privately printed
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Table of Contents
(From table of contents) 1. Original heads of Washington's first general order on taking command at Cambridge [dated Cambridge, 1775]
2. Questions for committee of Congress, in Washington's and answers in Reed's hand-writing [dated Cambridge, 1775]
3. Original draft of Washington's letter to his general officers [dated Cambridge, September 8th, 1775]
4. Jared Sparks to William B. Reed [dated Cambridge, February 21st, 1838]
I. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, October 30, 1775]
II. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 8th, 1775]
III. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 20th, 1775]
IV. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 27th, 1775]
V. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 28th, 1775]
VI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 30th, 1775]
VII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, December 15th, 1775]
VIII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, December 25th, 1775]
IX. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 4th, 1776]
X. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 14th, 1776]
XI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 23rd, 1776]
XII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 31st, 1776]
XIII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, February 1st, 1776]
XIV. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, February 10th, 1776]
XV. Washington to Reed. Journal of the siege of Boston [dated Cambridge, February 20, 1776; continued on the 3rd, 7th, and 9th of March]
XVI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, March 19th, 1776]
XVII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, March 25th, 1776]
XVIII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, March 28th, 1776]
XIX. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, April 1st, 1776]
XX. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, April 15th, 1776]
XXI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, April 23rd, 1776]
XXII. Washington to Joseph Reed, Esq., or in his absence to John Cadwallader, Esq., only at Bristol [dated Camp above Trenton Falls, December 23rd, 1776]
XXIII. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown, January 12th, 1777]
XXIV. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown January 14th, 1777]
XXV. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown January 15th, 1777]
XXVI. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown February 23rd, 1777]
XXVII. Washington to Reed [dated Middle Brook, May 29th, 1777]
XXVIII. Washington to Reed [dated Camp at Middle Brook, June 11th, 1777]
XXIX. Washington to Reed [dated Whitemarsh, December 2nd, 1777]
XXX. Washington to Reed [dated Valley Forge, June 15th, 1778]
XXXI. Washington to Reed [dated Fredericksburgh in the state of New York, November 27th, 1778]
XXXII. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, December 12th, 1778]
XXXIII. Washington to Reed as president of Pennsylvania [dated Head Quarters, March 31st, 1779]
XXXIV. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, March 28th, 1779]
XXXV. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, March 29th, 1779]
XXXVI. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, April 8th, 1779]
XXXVII. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, April 19th, 1779]
XXXVIII. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, May 8th, 1779]
XXXIX. Washington the the Executive Council of Pensylvania [dated Middlebrook, May 20th, 1779]
XL. Washington to Reed [dated West Point, July 29th, 1779]
XLI. Washington to Reed [dated West Point, August 22nd, 1779]
XLII. Washington to Reed [dated West Point, October 22nd, 1779]
XLIII. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown, May 28th, 1780]
XLIV. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, Bergen County, July 4th, 1780]
XLV. Washington to Mrs. Reed [dated Head Quarters, July 20th, 1780]
XLVI. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, Orangetown, August 10th, 1780]
XLVII. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, Passaic Falls, October 18th, 1780]
XLIX. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, November 20th, 1780]
L. Washington to Reed [dated Mount Vernon, November 15th, 1781]
LI. Washington to Reed [dated Verplank's Point, September 15th, 1782].
Edition Notes
Place and date of privately printed volume suggested by the copy, without the original manuscript letters, held by the New York Public Library.
This work consists of a printed section, with an abstract of letters numbered 1-4 on pages [5]-6, followed by manuscript originals of those letters pasted onto tabs; the next section consists of a brief synopsis of letters numbered I-LI on pages [7]-24, followed by the manuscript originals of letters pasted onto tabs. The letters are dated from 1775 to 1782. Some letters are in the hand of a secretary, Colonel Tench Tilghman, or Alexander Hamilton and are only signed by George Washington.
Pages [5]-6 contain abstracts of preliminary autograph letters..
Pages [7]-24 contain only brief synopsis of letters.
Frontispiece portrait is a mezzotint with engraving by A.H. Ritchie. It is pasted onto paper.
Purchase; 1883; 05590.
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