Introductory material
Reading edition
MARTHA WASHINGTON
From the painting by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This painting is owned by the Boston Athenæum and is known as the Athenæum portrait.
Autograph from letter written from Valley Forge, March 7, 1778, now in the possession of Hon. Winslow Warren.
VIGNETTE of MOUNT VERNON.
From a photograph.
WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION AT ANNAPOLIS
From the original painting by Trumbull in the Art Gallery of Yale University.
LAFAYETTE
From a contemporary French folio engraving in the Emmet collection, New York Public Library, Lenox Building.
HENRY KNOX
From the original portrait by Gilbert Stuart in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Autograph from Winsor's "America."
NATHANAEL GREENE
From the original painting by C.W. Peale, by kind permission of its present owner, Mrs. Wm. Brenton Greene, Jr., Princeton, N.J.
Autograph from Winsor's "America."