Original autograph letters, from General Washington to Joseph Reed, during the American Revolution
Subtitle: many of which have not been published..
Contributors: Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785; Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866; Reed, William B. (William Bradford), 1806-1876; Cadwallader, John, 1760 or 1761-1807; Tilghman, Tench, 1744-1786; Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Ritchie, Alexander Hay, 1822-1895
Publisher: privately printed
Published: 1874
Place of publication: New York?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Correspondence; Manuscripts; English; History
Notes: Place and date of privately printed volume suggested by the copy, without the original manuscript letters, held by the New York Public Library.

This work consists of a printed section, with an abstract of letters numbered 1-4 on pages [5]-6, followed by manuscript originals of those letters pasted onto tabs; the next section consists of a brief synopsis of letters numbered I-LI on pages [7]-24, followed by the manuscript originals of letters pasted onto tabs. The letters are dated from 1775 to 1782. Some letters are in the hand of a secretary, Colonel Tench Tilghman, or Alexander Hamilton and are only signed by George Washington.

Pages [5]-6 contain abstracts of preliminary autograph letters..

Pages [7]-24 contain only brief synopsis of letters.

Frontispiece portrait is a mezzotint with engraving by A.H. Ritchie. It is pasted onto paper.

Purchase; 1883; 05590.
Table of contents: title: (From table of contents) 1. Original heads of Washington's first general order on taking command at Cambridge [dated Cambridge, 1775]; title: 2. Questions for committee of Congress, in Washington's and answers in Reed's hand-writing [dated Cambridge, 1775]; title: 3. Original draft of Washington's letter to his general officers [dated Cambridge, September 8th, 1775]; title: 4. Jared Sparks to William B. Reed [dated Cambridge, February 21st, 1838]; title: I. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, October 30, 1775]; title: II.  Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 8th, 1775]; title: III. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 20th, 1775]; title: IV. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 27th, 1775]; title: V. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 28th, 1775]; title: VI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, November 30th, 1775]; title: VII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, December 15th, 1775]; title: VIII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, December 25th, 1775]; title: IX. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 4th, 1776]; title: X. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 14th, 1776]; title: XI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 23rd, 1776]; title: XII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, January 31st, 1776]; title: XIII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, February 1st, 1776]; title: XIV. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, February 10th, 1776]; title: XV. Washington to Reed. Journal of the siege of Boston [dated Cambridge, February 20, 1776; continued on the 3rd, 7th, and 9th of March]; title: XVI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, March 19th, 1776]; title: XVII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, March 25th, 1776]; title: XVIII. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, March 28th, 1776]; title: XIX. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, April 1st, 1776]; title: XX. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, April 15th, 1776]; title: XXI. Washington to Reed [dated Cambridge, April 23rd, 1776]; title: XXII. Washington to Joseph Reed, Esq., or in his absence to John Cadwallader, Esq., only at Bristol [dated Camp above Trenton Falls, December 23rd, 1776]; title: XXIII. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown, January 12th, 1777]; title: XXIV. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown January 14th, 1777]; title: XXV. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown January 15th, 1777]; title: XXVI. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown February 23rd, 1777]; title: XXVII. Washington to Reed [dated Middle Brook, May 29th, 1777]; title: XXVIII. Washington to Reed [dated Camp at Middle Brook, June 11th, 1777]; title: XXIX. Washington to Reed [dated Whitemarsh, December 2nd, 1777]; title: XXX. Washington to Reed [dated Valley Forge, June 15th, 1778]; title: XXXI. Washington to Reed [dated Fredericksburgh in the state of New York, November 27th, 1778]; title: XXXII. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, December 12th, 1778]; title: XXXIII. Washington to Reed as president of Pennsylvania [dated Head Quarters, March 31st, 1779]; title: XXXIV. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, March 28th, 1779]; title: XXXV. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, March 29th, 1779]; title: XXXVI. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, April 8th, 1779]; title: XXXVII. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, April 19th, 1779]; title: XXXVIII. Washington to Reed [dated Middlebrook, May 8th, 1779]; title: XXXIX. Washington the the Executive Council of Pensylvania [dated Middlebrook, May 20th, 1779]; title: XL. Washington to Reed [dated West Point, July 29th, 1779]; title: XLI. Washington to Reed [dated West Point, August 22nd, 1779]; title: XLII. Washington to Reed [dated West Point, October 22nd, 1779]; title: XLIII. Washington to Reed [dated Morristown, May 28th, 1780]; title: XLIV. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, Bergen County, July 4th, 1780]; title: XLV. Washington to Mrs. Reed [dated Head Quarters, July 20th, 1780]; title: XLVI. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, Orangetown, August 10th, 1780]; title: XLVII. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, Passaic Falls, October 18th, 1780]; title: XLIX. Washington to Reed [dated Head Quarters, November 20th, 1780]; title: L. Washington to Reed [dated Mount Vernon, November 15th, 1781]; title: LI. Washington to Reed [dated Verplank's Point, September 15th, 1782].