record number: 091241

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Dates:

( conjectural )

13 July 1798

Original paper slip text:[13 July 1798.]

Author's location:

Mount Vernon,

Original paper slip text:Mt. Vernon

Author:

George Washington

Original paper slip text:George Washington

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:to JA

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Title:

Length:

4 p. ("Draft" [i.e. copy of draft, in James McHenry's hand])

Notes:

Feinstone Collection, on deposit in the American Philosophical Society Library
ALS offered for sale, Parke-Bernet, Sale no. 2661 (6 March 1968), Item 46.
Sold, Parke-Bernet Gall., N.Y., Sale No. 596, 30–31 Oct. 1944 ("McHenry Papers," pt. 2), lot 209.
16. McHENRY, JAMES. A.L.s., 3 pp. 4to: backed with thin tissue. Mount Vernon, n.d. To [John Adams.]
Draft of a letter, written for Washington to Adams, on his (Washington's) appointment to command the Army.
"I have been honoured with your letter presented to me by the Secretary of War and announcing that you had advice and consent of the Senate appointed me ... I have finally determined to accept the commission of Commander in Chief of the armies of the U.S. ..." With numerous deletions throughout.
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 9/18/2015

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