Letter to Lord Mahon, being an answer to his letter addressed to the editor of Washington's writings

by Jared Sparks

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First edition

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. 48; original brown printed wrappers loose, chipped, and laid in; old fold, all else very good. Sparks was the 17th president of Harvard College and chaplain of the US House of Representatives. His Writings of George Washington was his most important published work. He was criticized by Lord Mahon for liberal editing by addition and subtraction of language from the original manuscripts, but

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