Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material George Washington papers,

Title

• George Washington papers,

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.

Names

• Washington, George, 1732-1799

Headings

• -  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,---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

Notes

• -  Arranged in ten series. Series 1: Exercise Books and Diaries, 1741-1799; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1754-1799; Series 3: Varick Transcripts, 1775-1783; Series 4: General Correspondence, 1697-1799; Series 5: Financial Papers, 1750-1796; Series 6: Military Papers, 1755-1798; Series 7: Applications, 1789-1796; Series 8: Miscellaneous Papers, circa 1775-1799; Series 9, Addenda, circa 1732-1943; and Series 10: Oversize, circa 1750-1914.
• -  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.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in private hands (enlargement prints filed in this collection). Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1933.
• -  Private
• -  Purchases, Washington family, 1834 and 1849.
• -  Other gifts, deposit, exchanges, transfers, reproduction with permission, and purchases, circa 1867-1998.
• -  U.S. president, U.S. Army officer, and patriot.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008068
• -  Index published by the Library of Congress in 1964 available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and online. Cataloged in record 64060052.
• -  George Washington diary, 1762, Kislak MS 190 Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. One of forty-one original George Washington diaries, and one of five diaries not in the George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
• -  Collection of Washingtoniana, formerly cataloged as part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection, was added to Series 9, Addenda, of this collection in 1999.

Medium

• 77,000 items.
• 508 containers plus 20 oversize.
• 125 microfilm reels.
• 215.2 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/kislak.0886.1

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2007574377

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

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LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2007574377

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