Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ABOUT LETTERS BOUND FOR AMERICA THAT CANNOT WAIT MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR. Letter Signed, "Gouv. Morris," to Buellan & Company, requesting that they take care of a letter, which asks of a Captain Lindsay that he delay his ship bound for America in order to afford time to send on the ship further important letters. 1 page, 4to; remnants of prior mounting along all edges verso. Paris, 19 July 1789
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Morris (1752-1816) served as a member of the Continental Congress in 1778-79, contributed to the planning of our coinage system, was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, assisted in authoring the U.S. Constitution, and served as U.S. minister to France beginning in 1792.