(AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1779) [John Jay] A Circular Letter fro

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) [John Jay.] A Circular Letter from the Congress of the United States of America to their Constituents. 19 pages. 8vo, stitched; title page quite worn with some soiling but no loss of text, dampstaining to early leaves, final leaf laid down on scrapbook paper; uncut; early inscription on title page. New London, CT: T. Green, [1779]

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Originally printed in Philadelphia earlier that year. A discussion of the finances of the war, with a rousing conclusion: "Determine to finish the contest as you began it, honestly and gloriously. Let it never be said that America had no sooner become independent than she became insolvent, or that her infant glories and growing fame were obscured and tarnished by broken contracts and violated faith, in the very hour when all the nations of the earth were admiring and almost adoring the splendor of her rising." Evans 16560. None of this edition traced at auction.