Transcriber’s Note: The cover image was created from the title page by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

THE
YOUTH OF WASHINGTON

[“MY BROTHER COMFORTED ME IN MY DISAPPOINTMENT.”]

Author’s Definitive Edition


THE
YOUTH OF WASHINGTON

TOLD IN THE FORM OF
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

BY

S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D.

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1910

Copyright, 1904, by
The Century Co.


Published October, 1904

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

TO
JOHN S. BILLINGS
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF
FORTY YEARS OF
FRIENDSHIP