From Jared Sparks
Memorandum Of Papers taken by Jared Sparks From Mount Vernon.
May, 1827.
4 vols. of Letters, Orders, and Instructions, from the Year 1754 to 1757.
3 vols. of Letters, Invoices, &c., from 1752 to 1774.
43 vols. of Revolutionary papers, as follows:
A. 7 vols.
B. 16 vols.
C. 5 vols.
D. 2 vols.
E. 1 vol.
F. 3 vols.
P. 3 vols.
Orders, 6 vols.
N.B. The third volume Orders for 1778 is missing, and not taken into this List.
13 vols. of Letters, from 1784 to 1799.
13 vols. containing a record of Transactions between the President and the various Heads of Departments, from 1789 to 1797
1 volume of a Journal of the Proceedings of the President.
3 vols. of Addresses and Answers.
Parcells of Miscellaneous Original Papers.
Parcels of Letters received by General Washington
Jared Sparks
Source Note
ADS, ViMtvL: Bushrod Washington Family Papers. On the opposite side of this document, BW wrote, "On the 13th June 1827 agreable to A request contained in Mr Sparks letter of the 4th of that month I put on board the Schooner Alexandria for Boston a large box containing the residue of the letters to Genl Washington."
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