Description: 1838 RARE GEN. WASHINGTON REVOLUTIONARY WAR Memorial for charity, INSCRIBED [John Pendleton Kennedy] Major William Jackson. MONUMENTS OF WASHINGTON'S PATRIOTISM, CONTAINING A FACSIMILE OF HIS PUBLIC ACCOUNTS DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR and Some Of The Most Interesting Documents Connected With His Military Command and Civil Administration, Embracing Among others His Farewell Address To The People Of The United States Together With An Eulogium On The Character Of Washington (Washington, D C., Peter Force Printer, 1838) First Limited Edition, sold for charity. Full Morocco leather with gilt titling. 9 x 14”, 28pp. of text +46 pp. of facsimiles of Washington’s wartime accounts and various issues of colonial currency. Also inserted is a separately- printed 3-page. appeal by Peter W. Gallaudet, once Washington’s personal secretary, for funds to establish what Washington had hoped would be a “Manual Labour School and Male Orphan Asylum”. but was instead given to Gallaudet’s son to found the first school in America for the education of the Deaf. A well-worn copy with front cover and first flyleaves detached, spine and both covers heavily worn and scuffed; Fair condition overall. This is also a significant Anglo-American literary association copy, inscribed on flyleaf. "To Samuel Rogers, Esq., With the Respectful Compliments of John P. Kennedy, Baltimore U.S., Nov. 12, 1838” John Pendleton Kennedy was both a novelist and Baltimore politician, author of some of the earliest popular American novels, later becoming President Fillmore’s Secretary of the Navy who helped launch the Perry Expedition to Japan. He numbered among his friends some giants of American and British literature of his day, including Irving, Poe, Cooper, Thackeray, Dickens – and British Romantic poet Samuel Rogers, to whom he presented this book while visiting London, returning to America to be elected to the US House of Representatives.2.
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