MORRIS LEWIS Autograph Letter Signed Your ever sincere and a

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SIGNER WRITES TO HIS SON MORRIS, LEWIS. Autograph Letter Signed, "Your ever sincere and aff[ectionat]e / father Lewis Morris," to Lewis Morris, Jr. ("My Dear son"), giving news of family members and mutual friends, remarking that he has been busy in the Legislature, lamenting Uncle Richard's senility [brother Richard Morris], and asking him to help the letter bearer Baron von Steuben. 2 pages, small folio, with integral blank; few short closed separations at horizontal folds. (MRS) New York, 5 February 1786

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". . . If I was to tel [sic] you I had not time to write you a long Letter perhaps you would not believe me but true it is [;] we are very busy in the Legislature and you will see by the papers that I am made one of the counsel of appointment [;] this comes from the house of assembly and it will shew you the family have not lost all their interest since the death of the old Lady [;] Uncle Rich[ar]d seems very sore and has expressed himself unhandsome of me to Mr. Lawrence [;] I pity him and am very sorry for his embicility [sic] of mind [;] he is under Government of a weak woman and I may say a weak family . . . .
"This will be handed you by the Baron Steuben [;] your acquaintance with him needs no farther recommendation than to say he is my neighbour and a very good one and I know you will shew him every civility in your Power . . . . Old [Charles] Thomson has married his Daughter to Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry a good kind of man . . . ."