CARROLL CHARLES Autograph Letter Signed Ch Carroll of Carrol

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CARROLL, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed, "Ch. Carroll of Carrolltown", to his granddaughter Mrs. Mary S. Bayard, explaining why he cannot give a cashmere shawl as a gift. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; small seal hole on blank, postal marking on terminal page. Doughoragen [MD], 4 October 1823

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Carroll wrote this letter at age 86, when he was well on his way to becoming the final surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. Here he observes, "My time of life, my stay here is very uncertain; even should I live a year or two more, I may become so infirm in the interim as to disqualify me from seeing those most dear to me."