New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-25
ley and Hobart's election C1I'SNTRyWAN
budds Lake. y. j. Sept % 1886
THE DATE OF THE FAREWELL. ADDRESS.
NoOohDlNG TO MIR. EAMEs. wAsHINGToN's FA-
NOUS DOCUMENT LEFT HIS HANDS
on sET TENDER
10 the Edifor OF Tho Tribune

ON Eel TENDER H.
TO the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir; The communication under this heading in
your issue of the 18th inst may be supplemented by
the following particulars concerning the manu-
script from which the Farewell Address first
printed. They are taken from Mr. Claypoole's rec
objections as printed in the first volume of the
Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsyl-
vania" philadelphia 1926:
A few days before the appearance OF this memoir
the President by his private secretary. sisnfyng
his desire to see me- / waited him at the APP
dning-room He received me kindly and after !
had paid my respects to him, desired me to take a
seat near him-then. addressing himself to me, said
that he had for some time past contemplated reir,
ing from public life and mad at length c9neiI ihs
ne had some thoughts and reflections on the occa-
the people of the United States in the form Of an
ADDRESS. and which he wished TO appear III Inc
Daily Advertiser, Of which was editor
He paused. and took the opportunity OF thank
channel of his communication with the people,
his appreciation of the principles ana NAME er ~
sented and asked when the publication could be
made answered that the time should be made mace
Monday was ixed on lie then told me his se ee-
ary would call on me with the s Goy 9 w tns
After the proofsheet had been compared WIN sile
copy. and corrected by myself carried Inv the
President who made but few alterations from ' ne
original. except In the punctua'loH' !" VIM" ~
The publication of the Address. dated G I ed
18th. / waited on the President with the origina'.
and in presenting it to him expressed my sti e
fed by being permitted to retain It; upon Wilci,
obliging manner. he handed IL paGk ~ IL. and
then took my leave of him. A.. horauriting Of
ANY person acquainted with the hanuWI MI, nc ~
President Washington would. on seeing tiils Ill,
men al once recognize it, And as hau , o II, ~ -,
mil lie hu |
was familiar me- and think coura az ry,,scrint
copv consists of thirty-two pages OF quarto ea,1r
paper scwed together as book, anu pararraphs
are eras ID and others substituted; in others Inans
lines struck out in ,n Tthf in their stead The
tenth eleventh and sixteenth pages are ANN AIM 80
IRE Of ,be 5irtvrst page is also eaced critical
examination will show That the wn9e was the
work of the same hand and ,c San con manu-
affirm that no other pen Tep than that Of the
great and good man whose signature vnp6 DSdis'
Philadelphia. February %. 1896.
From the foregoing account 1t VIII appear ,''"'
Mr. Claypooles first appointment with inc rres'
dent was on Thursday. September lo' that 'ho
manuscript copy delivered to the printer Oh
Friday the 10th; that the proof and the revise
were submitted the President probably on sat
urday the 18th. and that the address was pun
script address is dated the 18th, and the prin,sd d
address the nth the change OF GATE mus H in "'
early proof one OF these newspaper proofs con,
tanning corrections in Washingtons own hane
Vernon Association by the late George W thsIlus'
The date of the address. there printed, Is sep
tember II and has not been altered 1t MAY.
therefore be safely assumed that September l.
Is the correct date OF the address, as ilnaly cor
rected by Washington and that september ~ II
merely the date OF the publication. 49,.
MI Ciaypooe died March 49, 1s4s. aged Ninety
two His effects Were sold by auction; at the me
manuscript of the Farewell Address was started at
500 and run up to 81 800 at which price zee, ~ ~
for Mr. Lemon IT is now the properly OF me
New-York Public Library, and is on exhibition at
~ WHEREFORE EAMES.
Nevry York Sent 2l 1896 Ienox Librarian.