Word: washingtoniana
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...Michigan's Clements Library of early American documents, Teaching Fellow John Alden last week was rummaging through the papers of British General Thomas Gage, came upon George Washington's handwriting. Rushing to librarians with his find, he learned he had turned up a hitherto unknown piece of Washingtoniana...
...Washington the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
...Vernon, will be 200 feet wide, and," he added with a chuckle, "the appropriation was passed by Congress a few days ago, but the newspapers seem to have overlooked it." Professor Hart explained that he is now engaged in the preparation of a 25-volumes edition of Washingtoniana. This edition will contain photographic copies of every known and available document written by or to Washington, and will necessitate about six years of research by leading scholars and collectors
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