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Lunch Bite Object Talk – George Washington’s letter to David Rittenhouse
February 19, 2016 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Library Director Ellen Clark presents George Washington’s letter to David Rittenhouse, written from Newburgh, New York, February 16, 1783, thanking the Philadelphia inventor and instrument maker for a set of spectacles. Free Admission.