2006-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006
WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799) First President of the United States and commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Autograph Letter Signed, “W. Washington” 3p. quarto, Sandy Hill, December 18, 1785, docketed on verso by George Washington “From Colo. Wm. Washington 18th Decr. 1786 of South Carolina. The letter reads in part: “...In complyance with the request contained in your letter...it gives me much pleasure to forward Mr. Wm. Hammond in Baltimore two boxes, one containing acorns & the other Plants of the Live Oak Tree, which I have requested him to send you by the first opportunity. You will observe a difference in the form of the Acorns, those of an oval Figure are from the Live Oak Tree, an ever green much esteemed for Ship building & the delightful shade it affords, those which are nearly round are from a Tree called the Water Oak, which altho not an evergreen is tall & majestick in appearance. I dont recollect having observed any of the same species to the Northward of this State. I have not sent you so many of the Live Oak Acorns as I would have wished...I had the mortification to find that most of them were destroyed by the Rats. In order however to repair the loss in some measure I have sent you a box containing twenty odd of the Plants which have been growing in it ever since they were placed there by the hands of Major Washington...” More. Fine. WASHINGTON, William (1752-1810) was a patriotic Southern cavalry officer during the American Revolutionary War, who held a final rank of Brigadier General in the newly created United States after the war.
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