Editing the Papers of George Washington

A Bicentennial Exhibition
Demonstrating
the Process of Documentary Editing

by
Mary Anne Andrei
Philander D. Chase

The third manuscript page of Washington's 15 March 1755 letter to Robert Orme, drawn from his letter book for the Braddock Campaign, is heavily revised in Washington's own hand. (Library of Congress)

Dome Room of the University Rotunda
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
February 11th to May 7th, 1999

Copyright 1999 by the Papers of George Washington

In His Own Hand was funded by
the Papers of George Washington
and the Book Arts Press.