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WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Autograph Manuscript,
unsigned, 15-word annotation clipped from a slip of paper:
“These are Copies / of Letters from / Hanbury, Cary , &c. / & I
believe of no use.” 2
1
/
2
x3
1
/
4
inches; at bottom edge is inscribed in
unknown hand “written in 1757,” mounted to board, some scat-
tered foxing.
Np, [probably after 1759]
[800/1,200]
Before dying suddenly in 1757, VA planter Daniel Parke Custis had
been married to Martha Dandridge (who became Mrs. MarthaWashington
in 1759); Custis had engaged two agents in Britain to handle affairs
there, John Hanbury & Co. and Robert Cary & Co. Washington had
exchanged letters with these agents between 1759 and 1761 while set-
tling the estate of Custis.
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