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  Perhaps the only leaf from Washington's diary in private hands: exceptional George Washington autograph diary leaf dated March 1762; the first spring Washington was full owner of Mount Vernon

  WASHINGTON, George.

  George Washington Autograph Diary Leaf.

  [Mount Vernon]: March 1762.

  Autograph manuscript, being George Washington's diary entries for a portion of March 1762, detailing the fruit grafts that he has accomplished. 2 pages (5 14/16 x 3 10/16 inches, irregular) on a leaf of laid paper, [Mount Vernon], March 1762; browned, left margin of recto waterstained and abraded causing a loss of text in most lines, small abrasion at center of recto obscuring three words. Accompanied by an autograph note signed by James Kirke Paulding: "Memorandum in the hand of Washington taken from an old almanac for 1762, in the possession of JK Paulding." A rare Washington relic: perhaps the only leaf from Washington's diary in private hands. According to the Washington Papers, these two pages were initially a blank leaf interleaved in a printed almanac that a Mrs. J. Washington gave to novelist and Secretary of the Navy James Kirke Paulding. The balance of the diary, thirteen pages written on interleaved blanks in the Virginia Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1762, was sold at Sotheby's Parke Bernet, 6 December 1977, lot 35. The identifying note by Paulding accompanying the present leaf indicates that it was him who separated this leaf from the diary. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, editors of The Diaries of George Washington, state that the entry for 24 March 17...

  Price: $250,000.00     Item Number: 142654

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