BIB_ID
136647
Accession number
MA 553.77
Creator
Walton, George, 1749 or 50-1804.
Display Date
1779 Jan. 4.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.3 and 18.2 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Mrs. George Walton" with a note signed above the address "I cannot write to any person else, at this very late hour."
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.
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
Expressing his happiness that she is safely in Carolina; asking that she remain with her sister until she hears from him and reporting that her mother remains very ill and he fears "she cannot long survive;" saying he had been wounded in his thigh and a bone is broken but that he is getting good care; asking her to "Be, therefore, of good spirits; and let me not hear by every flag that you are inconsolable, which will only operate to depress mine. At any rate, you ought to recollect, that in these troublesome times you have no right to expect a life of superior tranquility to your neighbors;" reminding her that she is "sincerely loved by a man who wishes to make honor & reputation the rule of all his actions."
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