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Excerpt from Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. 1: Transactions, 1892-1894
As to the causes of that error, I can only say that the heliotype re production in our Publications shows the strong points of resemblance to Washington's handwriting, which led me to the unequivocal expres sion of opinion which I now retract, and to my denying the possibility of its having been written by either of the other persons named to me as the probable writer, - Knox, Heath, Cobb, Reed, and Lincoln, abundant specimens of the handwriting of each of whom I critically examined.
Of Shaw's handwriting, unfortunately, the genuine specimens I had for comparison were signatures only; and but one of these bore the full Christian name, and none of them exhibited any of the marked peculiari ties common to his hand and Washington's.
Now, however, the well-attested examples of Shaw's handwriting to which I have been referred in the Knox Papers settle the point beyond controversy.* I am indebted to you for direction to the particular pages which afford this evidence.
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