This is about half of the whole as given in fac-simile in Wilkinson's _Memoirs_, i. p. 855. The original is now among the Reed-Washington letters in the Carter-Brown library. It was the basis of Washington's first formal official letter to the president of Congress, which, as written out by Joseph Reed, is given in Sparks' _Washington_, iii. p. 17. It shows the degree of attention which the general bestowed on his minutes for his secretary's use. Washington, on his first arrival, had taken temporary quarters in the house of the president of the college, known now as the Wadsworth house (_Mem. Hist. Boston_, iii. 107; Gay's _Pop. Hist. U. S._, iii. 408), till the finest house in the town, one of a succession of mansions on the road to Watertown, was made ready for his use. These houses, which had all been deserted by their Tory owners, gave the name of Tory Row to this part of Cambridge. The one assigned to Washington's use was a Vassall house, later, however, known as the Craigie house, when it became the property of Andrew Craigie, from whose family it passed to the ownership of Longfellow, who died in it. Sparks lived in it when he edited _Washington's Writings_. It is familiar in engravings. Cf. _Mem. Hist. Boston_, iii. p. 113, with a note on various views of it; and for its associations, see Samuel Longfellow's _Life of H. W. Longfellow_; Irving's _Washington_, ii. p. 11; Greene's _Hist. View of the Amer. Rev._, p. 220; _Manhattan Mag._, i. 119; Mrs. Lamb's _Homes of America_; Gay's _Pop. Hist. U. S._, iii. 415. Among the other buildings of Revolutionary associations still standing in Cambridge are the Brattle house, the headquarters of Mifflin; the Vassall house, where Dr. Church was confined; the house where Jonathan Sewall lived, later occupied by General Riedesel; the Oliver house, now owned by James Russell Lowell; the "Bishop's Palace", where Burgoyne was quartered; and Christ Church, where Washington attended service (view in _Mass. Mag._, 1792, and compare Nicholas Hoppin's discourses, Nov. 22, 1857, and Oct. 15, 1861). For more of the historical associations of these Cambridge sites, see the _Harvard Book_; Drake's _Landmarks of Middlesex_; the Cambridge _Centennial Memorial_ (1875); William J. Stillman's _Poetic Localities of Cambridge_ (Boston, 1876); T.C. Amory's _Old and New Cambridge_; an illustrated paper in _Harper's Monthly_, Jan., 1876, another by Alexander Mackenzie, in the _Atlantic Monthly_, July, 1875; _Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc._, June, 1858, and Sept., 1872; and the book edited by Arthur Gilman, _Theatrum Majorum, The Cambridge of 1776_, which has an eclectic diary (by Mary W. Greely) of the siege, purporting to be that of one Dorothy Dudley.] [Illustration]