LEE RICHARD HENRY Autograph Letter Signed as Senator to Bost

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SIGNER: "THE PRESIDENT . . . IS NOT YET ARRIVED" LEE, RICHARD HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, as Senator, to Boston Customs Officer James Lovell ("My dear Friend"), remarking that he had little opportunity to speak to his friend [Sylvanus] Bourne, assuring that he would do what he could but that it was likely that those who served adequately in the states would fill similar positions in the new government, and remarking that the [newly-elected] President Washington had not yet arrived [in the U.S. capital, New York City]. With Franking Signature, "Free R.H. Lee," on address panel. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; small hole from seal tear in address leaf (without loss to text), folds. New York, 20 April 1789

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". . . So far as I can discover the general opinion, it seems to be, that those who have possessed offices in the States, and have discharged their duties properly, should be continued in similar offices under the New Government. This idea is favorable to your views, and when your singular merits in the late revolution come to be added thereto, I think that your opponent's intentions must vanish like Mists before the rising Sun. The President Gen. is not yet arrived; and we go on slowly as yet with the public business. . . ."