Excerpt from Epistles Domestic, Confidential and Official, From General Washington: Written About the Commencement of the American Contest, When He Entered on the Command of the Army of the United States The world is, without doubt, greatly ih debted to the induflrious compiler of the two volumes of Original Letters, above noticed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.