BIB_ID
136653
Accession number
MA 554.38
Creator
Walton, George, 1749 or 50-1804.
Display Date
1795 Nov. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
A penciled notation above the place and date of writing suggests the letter may have been addressed to James Jackson.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Informing him he is "just on the wing for Philadelphia. You will have seen my motives, expressed with candor, in the public prints. The ensuing Session of Congress will be most important. I told Milledge when he was up, without the smallest idea of anticipation, that no crisis since the Revolution made me feel a wish again to be a member before the present. The occasion is trying : in it I will do my duty, most assuredly, without other consideration than a sense of right. This short address is, simply to say, that our correspondence shall be renewed on my part. Expect from me, therefore, a picture of things as I find them."
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