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Julia Kean, from New Jersey, had absolutely no reverence for ex-presidents. If she did, she sure as hell wouldn’t have pasted a letter from George Washington in her scrapbook next to “BFF” collages and invitations. Sure she was ten and, yeah, we guess George Washington wasn’t as cool in 1826 when she created those memories, but she could have at least not cut the top of the letter off to make if fit in her book.
And, here’s the kicker, that letter was just sitting on a book shelf, collecting dust, until recently when all the contents of the Kean’s mansion were bequeathed to Kent University.
Historians, of course, figure it’s better late than never and are salivating over the wealth of artifacts contained in that house.
The scrapbook was found among turtleback trunks and packed bookshelves; an icehouse full of documents are yet to be read. “It gives me goose bumps,” said the university president, Dawood Farahi. “I believe it is one of the last great undiscovered collections of Revolutionary America.”
Among some of the letters authored by our lesser-known-founding-fathers is one written by Thomas Jefferson to Julia Kean’s Polish step-father.
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