Papers of George Washington
LC Control No.: |
mm 78044693
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Type of Material: | Archival Manuscript Material (Collection) |
Personal Name: | Washington, George, 1732-1799. |
Main Title: |
Papers of George Washington,
1592-1943
(bulk 1748-1799).
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Related Titles: |
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799.
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Description: |
77,000
items.
506 containers plus 13 oversize. 125 microfilm reels. 215.2 linear feet. |
Cancelled/Invalid LCCN: |
su 78044693
mm 80004318
00529702
mm 80076020
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Biographical/Historical Data: |
U.S. president, U.S. Army officer, and patriot.
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Summary: |
Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.
Correspondents include John Adams, Samuel Adams, Theodorick Bland, Jonathan Boucher, Elias Boudinot, John Burgoyne, Edward Carrington, Charles Carroll (1737-1832), Jonathan Dayton, Robert Dinwiddie, William Duer, David Forman, Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Gates, Mordecai Gist, William Gordon, Nathanael Greene, Alexander Hamilton, Edward Hand, Ebenezer Hazard, William Heath, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Johnson, Henry Laurens, Tobias Lear, Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Lawrence Lewis, Benjamin Lincoln, Robert R. Livingston, William Livingston, James McHenry, James Madison, John Mitchell, James Monroe, Daniel Morgan, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, Jedidiah Morse, John Moylan, Thomas Nelson, Lewis Nicola, Matthias Ogden, William Paca, Thomas Paine, William Paterson, Charles Willson Peale, Edmund Pendleton, Richard Peters, Timothy Pickering, Joseph Reed, Benjamin Rush, John Rutledge, Arthur St. Clair, Philip John Schuyler, Artemas Ward, and Arthur Young. |
Notes: |
Private
Collection of Washingtoniana, formerly cataloged as part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection, was added to Series 9, Addenda, of this collection in 1999. MSS44693 |
Finding Aids: |
Index published by the Library of Congress, 1964. Finding aid to additions available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
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Acquisition Source: |
Purchases,
Washington family,
1834 and 1849.
Other gifts, deposit, exchanges, transfers, reproduction with permission, and purchases, circa 1867-1998. |
Additional Formats: |
Available through the Library of Congress Web site.
Two copies of the microfilm edition of Series 1-8D available, no. 12,935. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1964. In part, transcripts and photocopies. [S.l.]. Microfilm produced from originals in private hands (enlargement prints filed in this collection). Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1933. |
Subjects: |
Adams, John, 1735-1826--Correspondence. Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803--Correspondence. Bland, Theodorick, 1742-1790--Correspondence. Boucher, Jonathan, 1738-1804--Correspondence. Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821--Correspondence. Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792--Correspondence. Carrington, Edward, 1749-1810--Correspondence. Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832--Correspondence. Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824--Correspondence. Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770--Correspondence. Duer, William, 1747-1799--Correspondence. Forman, David, 1745-1797--Correspondence. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Correspondence. Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806--Correspondence. Gist, Mordecai, 1742-1792--Correspondence. Gordon, William, 1728-1807--Correspondence. Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786--Correspondence. Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804--Correspondence. Hand, Edward, 1744-1802--Correspondence. Hazard, Ebenezer, 1744-1817--Correspondence. Heath, William, 1737-1814--Correspondence. Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799--Correspondence. Jay, John, 1745-1829--Correspondence. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence. Johnson, Thomas, 1732-1819--Correspondence. Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792--Correspondence. Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816--Correspondence. Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792--Correspondence. Lee, Charles, 1758-1815--Correspondence. Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794--Correspondence. Lewis, Lawrence, 1767-1839--Correspondence. Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810--Correspondence. Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813--Correspondence. Livingston, William, 1723-1790--Correspondence. McHenry, James, 1753-1816--Correspondence. Madison, James, 1751-1836--Correspondence. Mitchell, John, 1711-1768--Correspondence. Monroe, James, 1758-1831--Correspondence. Morgan, Daniel, 1736-1802--Correspondence. Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816--Correspondence. Morris, Robert, 1734-1806--Correspondence. Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826--Correspondence. Moylan, John--Correspondence. Nelson, Thomas, 1738-1789--Correspondence. Nicola, Lewis, 1717-1807--Correspondence. Ogden, Matthias, d. 1791--Correspondence. Paca, William, 1740-1799--Correspondence. Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809--Correspondence. Paterson, William, 1755-1810--Correspondence. Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827--Correspondence. Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803--Correspondence. Peters, Richard, 1743-1828--Correspondence. Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829--Correspondence. Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785--Correspondence. Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813--Correspondence. Rutledge, John, 1739-1800--Correspondence. St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818--Correspondence. Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804--Correspondence. Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800--Correspondence. Young, Arthur, 1741-1820--Correspondence. United States. Continental Army. United States. Continental Congress, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. United States--Politics and government--1789-1797. Army officers. Presidents--United States. |
Local Shelving No.: |
0501P
Oversize 1:13 Oversize 0503P Microfilm 12,935-124N-124P-124P-6P (Copy 3 : reels 29-33, 116) |
Repository: |
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Washington, D.C.
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Links: |
Papers of George Washington.:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000010
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