GERRY ELBRIDGE Autograph Letter Signed E Gerry to Joseph Bar

Sale 2483 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 780

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

GERRY, ELBRIDGE. Autograph Letter Signed, "E Gerry," to Joseph Bartlett ("My dear Sir"), acknowledging receipt of a land deed and promising to make payment on a note in six months. 1 page, 4to; silked on verso, some scattered loss at fold intersections affecting a few letters of text, moderate scattered dampstaining, faint bleedthrough from docketing verso, reinforced at edges verso. Cambridge, 16 March 1805

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"I have rec'd the deed of your land in this pla[ce] & wish that a paragraph may be inserted in the advertisement which I have sent to Messrs Adams & Rhodes for monday next . . . . [T]wo hundred dollars is a small sum, & till of late could be spared by me at almost any time without inconvenience, but I have been obliged to take money out of one of the . . . banks in consequence of several disappointments, which I have lately experienced. . . . I will guarantee the payment of your note . . . to be given for six months . . . in any mode most agreeable to you."