Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 75

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SIGNER FROM PENNSYLVANIA MORRIS, ROBERT. Autograph Letter Signed, "Robt Morris," to Major General Charles Lee, concerning Lee's personal finances. 2 pages, 4to, with integral address leaf; seal tear, minor ink smears, two small ink burns. "Manheim in Pensylvania," 21 April 1778
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A substantial letter from the "Financier of the Revolution": "All the contrivances I was master of was insufficient to procure any payments in England on your acct. . . . I am told your estate is a very fine one, worth much more money than you gave for it." This was two months before Lee's disgrace at the Battle of Monmouth, for which he was court-martialed and relieved of his duties as Major General under Washington. Provenance: Anderson's sale, 8 December 1927, lot 152.