WILSON JAMES Autograph Letter Signed to Jasper Yeates

Sale 2276 - Lot 141

Price Realized: $ 600

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

SIGNER FROM PENNSYLVANIA WILSON, JAMES. Autograph Letter Signed, to Jasper Yeates, hoping "you have seen the gentleman you mentioned to me, and that you have been successful." 1 page, folio, with integral address leaf; tipped to scrapbook leaf with an engraving of the Pennsylvania seal and an engraved Wilson portrait, repaired seal holes, early ownership inscription on verso of address leaf. Philadelphia, 3 May 1782

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Wilson was later a founding justice of the Supreme Court. Provenance: William D. Morley sale, 21 November 1950, lot 76.