WASHINGTON, George. Address leaf with autograph free frank signed ("G:o Washington"), as Commander in Chief of Continental Army, 27 May 1780. An address panel to Colonel Clement Biddle. 1 page oblong (5 x 8¾in.), tipped at top edge to a matt, docketed along right edge.
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WASHINGTON, George. Address leaf with autograph free frank signed ("G:o Washington"), as Commander in Chief of Continental Army, 27 May 1780. An address panel to Colonel Clement Biddle. 1 page oblong (5 x 8¾in.), tipped at top edge to a matt, docketed along right edge.

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WASHINGTON, George. Address leaf with autograph free frank signed ("G:o Washington"), as Commander in Chief of Continental Army, 27 May 1780. An address panel to Colonel Clement Biddle. 1 page oblong (5 x 8¾in.), tipped at top edge to a matt, docketed along right edge.

A FINE WASHINGTON FRANKING SIGNATURE in a letter, written at the end of the hard winter encampment at Morristown, N.J., asking Biddle not to resign his commission as quartermaster general. "The Department you filled is a very important one," Washington told him, "and on a proper discharge of its duties our abilities to move in case of active operations will greatly depend..."