Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 119

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
DEWITT CLINTON. Autograph Letter Signed, as Governor, to Representative James Tallmadge, Jr., explaining that the conditions on the pardon of Colonel B[rockholst?] Livingston require him to leave the state but he has requested more time and inquiring about how to proceed. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; short closed separation at fold repaired verso, even toning overall. Albany, 14 February 1818

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". . . [W]hen B. Livingston was pardoned . . . he was to leave the State & never return . . . . I have been tested with letters from Col. Livingston about modifying the conditions of the pardon to which I have returned no answer. . . ."

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.