Circular Letter of the Washington Academy (October 1803).

• imprint_number: 1803.059
• title: Washington Academy, October 25, 1803. Sir, Sometime ago the undersigned had the honor of addressing a circular letter to the members of the Cincinati [sic] Society. We then stated that your Society ... had appropriated its funds to the use of Washington Academy ...
• sequence_number: 59
• year: 1803
• place_issued: Lexington
• issuing_press: Samuel Walkup
• author: Washington Academy.
• notes: Letter updates information provided to the members of the Society of the Cincinnati of Virginia in a similar circular of the preceding March (1803.057), concerning the disposition of the Society's September 1802 gift to the Academy (see 1802.029); Blackburn was the chair of the school's board, while Baxter was the academy's rector; founded in 1776 as the Liberty Hall Academy, the school was renamed Washington Academy after a substantial donation in 1796 by George Washington; the school continues today as Washington & Lee University.
  Only recorded copy is held in the manuscript collection of the Virginia Historical Society.
  Sheet lacks colophon; for the duration of his printing career in Lexington (1802-10), Samuel Walkup was the printer for the Washington Academy and its founding patron, the Presbytery of Lexington, so the attribution here.
  
  
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