Charles Willson Peale Preliminary draft of autobiography written prior to 1790
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content: Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827
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content: Selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection
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content: Selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection / Series 1: Selected papers from the Peale-Sellers collection
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content: Reel P031.peale, Frame 1-50
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content: Typewritten leaf preceding mss: This fragment of the autobiography of Charles WIllson Peale is a draft made before the larger and complete manuscript was written, and is most probably the copy that he had with him onhis visit to Maryland in 1790 as referred to in his journal of that year, page 59, when in re his conversation with James Tilghman at Chestertown, he writes: "I mentioned to him that I had begun an History of my life, in which I had mentioned in several parts his name, his having lent me 20 L on my first beginning business, he said that I had paid him that money. I mentioned to him my wish that he would look at the paragraphs in which I had mentioned my transactions with him, he said that he remembered that I was in an appointment to call upon him & others by Government that I behaved politicaly to him." That this was the manuscript he had with him on this occasion is suggested also by the fact that it ends with the account of his wife's death which occurred a few months prior to his visit to Maryland, and he was probably engaged in writing that portion at that time.