Box 1

  [MITCHELL, Silas] Weir. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Philadelphia, May 4, 1904. Three-page letter on two integral leaves of stationery bearing Mitchell’s printed address, with each leaf measuring 8 x 5”. Mitchell writes to Dr. Walter Franklin Atlee. He discusses his recently published book, The Youth of Washington (Century, 1904) and states, in part: “If herein I have set G.W. on his living legs – no more to be a lay figure – I shall have attained my end. Some time I must point out...