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Autograph letter signed with initials : New York, to "my dear brother" [Arthur Lee], 1790 July 27.

BIB_ID
122074
Accession number
MA 553.35
Creator
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
Display Date
1790 July 27.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
This letter has previously identified the recipient as William Lee but a letter dated August 3, 1790 from Richard Henry Lee to Arthur Lee appears to follow on this letter, specifically with regard to an "Ultimatum" for which he requested a reply and a shipment to him of French brandy to which he refers in this letter.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in detail, the funding and assumption of "the Continental debts" of the U.S.; discussing a possible investment in that debt and the relative risks involved.