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Nov 12, 2020
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$2,125
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Lot Description
MORRIS, Robert (1734-1806), as U. S. Superintendent of Finance. Letter signed (“Rob’t Morris”), to John Langdon. Office of Finance, Philadelphia, 2 May 1782.
2 pages, 8vo, 228 x 189 mm, in a secretarial hand, docketd verso, on a bifolium, creased.
MORRIS DISCUSSES SHARES OF THE BANK OF NORTH AMERICA "YOU MAY DEPEND THAT YOU HAVE NO BETTER PROPERTY THAN THESE SHARES."
"I was informed that Mr. Livermore had been there to take leave and that he is going off this morning. I have therefore risen early to send by him a Packet inclosing the Certificates from the Bank of your shares therein, you may depend that you have no better property than these shares. I think the Proprietors will receive this year upwards of Six p'cent for their money."
In a postscript, Morris reports "you will receive herein another draft of Samuel Livermore Esq. on the Honble Meshech Weare Esqr. dated the 19th. Instant at Ten days for Two Hundred and thirty four dollars which Please to Recover and Credit the United States for the amount."