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  • Many Letters to George–January 17, 1776

    Cover art for January 17, 1776: copy of a letter send in April 1776 by Washington to the Continental Congress. via Library of Congress.
    Copy of a letter sent in April 1776 by Washington to the Continental Congress. via Library of Congress.

    George Washington was a prolific letter writer, and as such he also tended to receive a great number of letters.

    We have to day three missives sent to George Washington on this day in 1776.

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    (Pardon my brevity for this episode; as I write this my wife has spent the better part of the day in the hospital for a surgical procedure, and I’m too exhausted to be my usual clever self.)