Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 223

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(NEW JERSEY.) Belcher, Jonathan. A florid letter on inside colonial politics. Autograph Letter Signed as Governor of New Jersey to his friend and longtime ally Richard Waldron of New Hampshire. 4 pages, 8 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; partial separations at folds, minimal foxing. (MRS) Burlington, NJ, 28 November 1749

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"I have for some time been jealous that Sir K__tt_y is grown cool in his quondam friendship, and I am the more confirmed in it, by his sudden silent departure, without lisping a word to me." Provenance: Smythe's Manuscript Society sale, 27 May 1989, lot 1036, to the consignor.