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                                            (Revised 1955)

 
                       THE  LIBRARY  OF  CONGRESS

                         CONSTITUENT SERVICES    
               SERIAL & GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS DIVISION




                       The New-York Morning Post
        
                            November 7, 1783
            
The issue of The New-York Morning Post of November 7, 1783, "Vol. 
III, Numb. 155," contains Washington's farewell to the army.  For
this reason it has been reprinted several times.  The Library of
Congress has five different reprints but no original.  Comparison
of these reprints with a photostat from the original belonging to
the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, shows
that they differ in numerous respects.  The following details are
sufficient to distinguish the originals from the reprints: 
    1. The rules immediately above and below the date line in
the original have breaks near the right-hand end. 
    2. The index hand at the left of the printers' notice in the
heading of the original is small and in outline; that in the
reprints shows the closed fingers.
    3. In the fourth column of page 1, Samuel Loudon's "To the
Public" is divided into six paragraphs in the original; reprints
have five paragraphs only.
    4.  On page 3 of the original, "General Washington's Farewe]
Orders to the Armies of the United States" fills column 1 and all
but three lines of column 2; in reprints it continues some 2 1/2
inches into column 3.
 
     Such reprints have small monetary value.








                             U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1955

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