Digges. Letters of Thomas Attwood Digges (1742-1821)

Digges, Thomas Attwood; Elias, Robert H. & Finch, Eugene D. [editors]. Letters of Thomas Attwood Digges (1742-1821). Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1982. First Edition. ISBN: 0872494128. [10158] Green cloth, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, binding very good, dust jacket with darkened spine, now in a clear wrapper. Lxxxiv., 666 clean and unmarked pp., index, tight. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover. Charles Attwood Digges (1742-1821), a native of Maryland, born to a Catholic family who owned the estate across the river from Mount Vernon. He lived in Lisbon for many years was an intimate of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. While residing in Lisbon during the American Revolution he promoted the patriot cause, and supported it by supplying the American patriot leaders with information from England and elsewhere, and by being a diplomatic courier for Franklin and others. "Digges reported the news about the progress of