![]() A former chaplain of Congress, Sparks was the editor and owner of the United States’ first literary magazine, the North American Review, which, under his direction, was distinguished for its judiciousness. It had taken him years to get permission to see them, finally securing it from Washington’s nephew and literary executor, the Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington, by pledging discretion, and, no less important, agreeing to split the profits from publishing an edition of Washington’s writings. He sought only George Washington’s papers. He made no note of the grounds, the house, the stables, the slope of the hill. ![]() Jared Sparks, thirty-seven, and known for his editorial eye, reached Mount Vernon by carriage just before sunset on March 14, 1827. Every biographer of George Washington has remarked on his inscrutability every generation has tried to figure him out. ![]()
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