As we blogged earlier this week, a letter penned by George Washington is on display today in the front lobby of the Secretary of State’s office in the Legislative Building on Olympia’s Capitol Campus. The letter will be here until 4 p.m. The letter was written in 1777 when Washington was a general in the Revolutionary War, years before he became America’s first president.

In the photo above, State Archivist Jerry Handfield (right) and Benjamin Helle of the State Archives put the historic letter in our display case.