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The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
3600 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
Mount Vernon, VA 22121
Primary Collecting Areas:
George and Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Founding Era and Early Republic, Historic preservation, Decorative arts, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Description:

The Fred W. Smith National Library includes general collections, special collections and archives as a resource for scholars, students, and those interested in George Washington, colonial America and the Revolutionary and founding eras.

The library's general collections include secondary source materials on the Washington and Custis families, and the colonial and founding eras.

The Special Collections materials highlight the lives of George and Martha Washington as well as their descendants through correspondence, financial materials, and original books from George and Martha Washington's library.

The archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association holds the historic institutional records of the organization dating back to its founding in 1853.

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Start Over Repository The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Creator Dandridge, Bartholomew, approximately 1774-1802

Letter, Bartholomew Dandridge to John Rutherford, 1794 Box 24, Folder 1794.06.18

A.L.S. 1 page. Philadelphia. Sends Rutherford the desired information on Mr. Mien -- enclosed were copies of 2 letters from a member of Congress from Maryland, which Rutherford can trust -- the President has little time to spend on such requests. Autograph letter signed, Contemporary copy(?), docketed, incomplete watermark (G.W.'s). Name on original manuscript appears as "B. Dandridge."

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 24, 1793/1794

Letter, Bartholomew Dandridge to Messrs. Childs & Swaine, 1793 Box 1

Dandridge writes on behalf of President George Washington to the printers Childs and Swaine that Washington no longer wishes to subscribe to the supplement to their Daily Advertiser because he longer has time to read "the published prints that are brought to him."

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  2. Chapin collection of Washington & Custis family documents, 1758/1829
  3. Series 2. Correspondence, 1768/1829

Letter, Bartholomew Dandridge to Thomas Russell, 1795 Box 27, Folder 1795.12.23

A.L.S. 1 page. Philadelphia. Dandridge encloses is $55. to pay duty on a pipe of wine for the President -- asks to be informed when this letter arrives safely. Autograph letter signed, Draft, docketed by Dandridge, laminated, in a later hand "from GW's secy paying for wine," watermark. Name on original manuscript appears as "B. Dandridge."

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 27, 1795/1796

Letter, Bartholomew Dandridge to William Barton, 1797 Box 29, Folder 1797.03.01

A.L.S. 1 page. Philadelphia. Dandridge writes at Washington's direction, returning any testimonials and letters which had been presented to the President in Barton's behalf. Autograph letter signed, Draft, docketed by Dandridge, G.W.'s watermark. Name on original catalog card appears as "B. D."

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 29, 1796/1797

Letter, Bartholomew Dandridge to William Summers, 1796 Box 27, Folder 1796.02.29

A.L.S. 1 page. Philadelphia. Dandridge writes that Washington will not lease forever his lot in Alexandria, and will sell only for high cash price -- suggests Summers should make his best offer for it, and President will consider it. Autograph letter signed, Draft, docketed by Dandridge, watermark. Name on original manuscript appears as "B. D."

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 27, 1795/1796

Receipt, Bartholomew Dandridge to Robert Lewis, 1795 Box 26, Folder 1795.09.01

A.D.S. 1 page. Received £475.10.1 for President, specifying how much was received in bank notes, French crowns, silver coin, and gold coin. [This is for rents collected by Lewis for Washington; see letter of same date, Robert Lewis to George Washington.] Autograph document signed, docketed by R. Lewis.

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  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 26, 1795

Receipts for hay, 1791/1792 Box 20, Folder 1791.00.00

Receipts for hay for the President. 7 partly printed documents, various sizes on verso. The central document is an agreement/receipt between Tobias Lear and William Crouch, the hay dealer. Document is in the hand of Bartholomew Dandridge, signed by Lear and witnessed by Dandridge. 4 papers are weight slips for a load of hay naming the buyer as "Mr. President" or "Mr. Washington." 2 slips are receipted invoices signed by William Crouch to Lear for 100 bales of rye straw.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
  2. Historic manuscript collection, 1601/1933
  3. Series 1. Documents and Manuscripts
  4. Manuscripts Box 20, 1791

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