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To George Washington from Charles Willson Peale, 6 August 1787

From Charles Willson Peale

Augt 6 1787

Dr Sir

Some Ladies & Gentlemen from Virginia having desired an Exhibition at ½ past 4 oclock in the afternoon of tomorrow gives me an opportunity of requesting the favour of your Company to partake of such Amusement as some of my labours may afford.1 I am with the highest respect Dr Sir your Obl[i]ged Hbe Servt

C.W. Peale

LB, PPAmP: Charles Willson Peale Papers.

1. GW does not record in his diary attending Peak’s exhibition on that day, but on 27 Sept. Peale in a letter to GW refers to GW’s having visited “my Room.”

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    To George Washington from Charles Willson Peale, 6 August 1787
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    “To George Washington from Charles Willson Peale, 6 August 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-05-02-0262. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 5, 1 February 1787 – 31 December 1787, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, p. 283.]

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