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Show GENUINE LETTER OF WASHINGTON RECENTLY BROUGHT TO LIGHT 1 r'2 I .Ms w ,...,Ar ' n Fac-slmile of the Letter. T' IIIB above letter from Georgo Washington, expressing sor-"!' sor-"!' row for tho death of Gen. l&HSSj Knox has been In tho family of Gen. Knox slnco it was received re-ceived from tho first president of tho United States. Tho present possessor of tho document Is Orvlllo Dowoy Thntcher. a veteran of tho civil war, now In tho division of tho auditor for tho postofllco department. Mr. Thatcher received tho letter from his uncle, Rear Admiral Henry Knox Thatcher, a member of tho Society So-ciety of tho Cincinnati, by whom tho epistle had been treasured as ono of his most precious possessions. The Thatcher fnmlly is of old Now Knglnnd stock. Thatcher's island, at tho end of Capo Ann, known by all mnrlners for Its two hugo lighthouses, was named for ono of tho fnmlly. Samuol Thatcher, grandfather of Mr. O. D. Thatcher, was for many years the oldest graduato of Harvard, tho oldest Mason and the oldest former member of congress. Mount Auburn cemetery on tho outskirts of Uoston, wa3 tho old Thatchor farm, settled by passengers of tho Mayflower. |