A full collection of books upon Washington would fill a large library, and the list is being steadily extended. The best edition of his writings is that edited by Worthington C. Ford (1889-93) ; superseding that by Jared Sparks (1837), the latter contains some papers not found else where. Nearly all of the Presidential messages and proclamations are to be found in J. D. Richardson's Messages and Papers of the Presi dents (1896). The best of the earlier biographies are those by John Marshall (18o4-o7) ; Washington Irving (1855-59) ; Edward Everett Hale (1888) ; Henry Cabot Lodge (1889) ; Woodrow Wilson (5897) Worthington C. Ford (1899) ; Norman Hapgood (Igo') . These were supplemented in their time by such special works as G. W. P. Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington (186o) ; R. Rush, Washington in Domestic Life (1857); H. B. Car rington, Washington the Soldier (1899) ; Paul Leicester Ford, The True George Washington (1896) ; B. T. Johnston, General Washington (1894). But in recent years large additions have been made to the store of knowledge of Washington and his times by John C. Fitzpatrick,
The Diaries of George Washington, 1748-1799 (1925) ; Paul Leland Haworth, George Washington, Farmer (1915) ; Eugene E. Prussing, The Estate of George Washington (1927) ; Charles Moore, The Family Life of George Washington (1926) ; and Archer B. Hulbert, Wash ington and the West (19"). An iconoclastic short life, often inaccurate, has been written by W. E. Woodward, George Washington: The Image and the Man (1926) and a detailed and scholarly record by Rupert Hughes in George Washington the Human Being and the Hero, 1732-1762, and George Washington the Rebel and the Patriot, 1762-1777 (1926, 1927). For a treatment of the military and political background of his times see George Otto Trevelyan's history of the American Revolution, the large histories by Bancroft, Winsor, McMaster, Schouler, and Channing, to William Maclay's Journal, 1789-91 (189o), and Henry Jones Ford's Washington and his Col leagues (1918). See also Shelby Little, George Washington (1929) . The best work on Martha Washington remains Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's Martha Washington (18Q7). (A. N.)