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
John Randolph, John Vardill, George Washington, C. I. Bushnell, R. W. Meade, Theodore Irwin (Former owner)
Print Book, English, 1796
Printed by G. Robinson and J. Bull, New York, 1796
xiv pages, 1 leaf, 303 pages frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm
270773016
The authorship of the spurious letters has been attributed to John Vardill and John Randolph
Pages 1-100 are reprints of the spurious letters "printed in the Year 1778."
Bdg.: 1/2 beige calf
A.s. C.I. Bushnell on fly-leaf, a.s. Port au Prince June 1797 R.W. Meade, on prelim. leaf