Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 21,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
"OUR ENEMIES ARE NOW PLAYING THE LAST CARD" LEE, RICHARD HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, to Brigadier General George Weedon, asking for protection against British raiding parties. With postscript Signed "R.H. Lee." 2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; seal hole on final blank; nearly intact seal. "Chantilly" [Westmoreland County, VA], 21 June 1781
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"It will surely be of infinite importance if the news current here be true, that 30 odd sail of vessels with reinforcements to Ld. Cornwallis have gone up James River, because I apprehend that the difficulty of getting provisions, forage &c for their army will compel the enemy to send foraging parties up the several rivers to collect & transport these necessaries. . . . I agree with you in opinion that vigorous exertions on our part for a few months will probably make us easy & happy, for I believe that our enemies are now playing the last card."
The postscript concerns a group of prisoners, described as "very bad men . . . & will make their escape if not well guarded and closely attended to."