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(PRESIDENTS.) Leaf said to be from George Washington's letterbook, inscribed by his great-great-nephew. One manuscript page, 12¾ x 7¼ inches to sight; folds, minor foxing. Not examined out of early double-sided frame. Prospect Hill, WV, 1 March 1833
The main inscription reads "This leaf cut out from an old letter book once the property of Gen. Washington at Mount Vernon, & now owned (book) by a great-nephew & presented by him to his dear friend & Institute mate Isaac Bloodgood Esq. of Flushing, Long Island, N.Y. Bushrod W. Herbert." Curling around the watermark in the upper portion, Herbert has written "Look at this, hold up to the light."
Bushrod Washington Herbert (1815-1888) was the great-grandson of President Washington's brother John Augustine Washington. He inherited John Augustine Washington's Prospect Hill estate in what is now Jefferson County, WV. At the 1889 centennial of Washington's inauguration in New York, the recipient Isaac Bloodgood (1815-1898) of Flushing, NY exhibited the leaf to commemorate the occasion (Long Island Weekly Star, 3 May 1889 as reported in "Presidential Centennial and Baseball In 1889 Queens" in the Queens Gazette, 9 May 2012).
