Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-02-13
LIFE OF WASHINGTON, by Jared Sparks.


Each number to contain between forty and fifty
pages, and be cmbellished with the following fine
s,cc and coppcrpute engravnas viz:
! Portrait OF Washington at 40 nv Peale
: do Mrs. Washington at 20, by Wellaston.
3 View of Mount Vernon.
4 Battle OF Braddock' 5 defeat.
5 Head Quarters at Cambridge.
& Head Ruarters at Newburg.
Plan of farm at Mount Vernon.
: Plan Of Boston and cnvrons
9 Head Quarters a AIorrisiown.
10 BATTLE of Brandywine.
II Portrait OF Washington, by Stewart.
- Eucampmeut at Valley Forge.
Is Battle Of Germantown.
II Fac slm,le OF Washlugton's hand writing.
The portraits were copied from the original
paintings. The plans. sketches, and other engra-
wings, have been compiled from the bes drawings
a we'll English aud French as American Spe.
cal aid Was derived from a series of manuscript
drawings in the possession Of General La Faye,te
which are executed with scientific accuracy anc
/ beauty.
! The well known ability or the author, the abun
dant means which he possessed. viz: more than
! two hundred folio volumes of original mauust rpt
purchased by Congress, ten years researches i.
! the public offices in London. Paris, Washington
and IN all The states which formed the contederac,
during tho Tev0u Iol. well as the access he ha:
gained to valuable private papers IA di arent part
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nails, original and important in their character
which we trust will be found to have contribute,
essential aid in enabling him to execute with more
/ accuracy aud completeness his main purpose ane
| thus to have compensated in some degree for III,
time and labor they have cost. Its publication hal
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cs the part o. the editor, but great pecuniary re
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