BIB_ID
122075
Accession number
MA 553.34
Creator
Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794.
Display Date
1785 Jan. 21.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
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.
Summary
Enclosing "communications from the Ministers plenipotentiary of these United States at Paris, together with an Act of Congress on that Subject - Much inconvenience to the American ministers abroad, being apprehended from improper publications of their letters, hath induced Congress to desire that these informations may be kept from the public eye - The precarious State of our public credit abroad is so powerfully expressed in these letters, as to render a comment unnecessary - They prove incontestably the necessity of immediate, vigorous measures for supplying the Treasury of the United States, that justice may be punctually done to those excellent friends who assisted us in the day of our distress;" asking that the Governor present the communications and the Act of Congress to the General Assembly of his State.
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