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Autograph letter signed : Chantilly [near Montross, Va.], to Robert Carter, 1782 Aug. 10.

BIB_ID
121829
Accession number
MA 557.33
Creator
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
Display Date
1782 Aug. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Honorable Robert Carter Esq. / Nomony Hall."
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Summary
Informing him that a letter he sent arrived "plunder'd," with the seal broken and the enclosed newspaper packet missing; reporting that "17 sail of French Line of battle ships have passed our Capes for the Eastward -- their whole object not known, altho the first business will be ... to repair their injured rigging in some of our eastern ports."