BIB_ID
291784
Accession number
MA 7488
Creator
Morris, Robert, 1734-1806.
Display Date
1789 Sept. 27.
Credit line
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address panel) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Note in pencil in an unknown hand at head of letter identifies recipient.
Provenance
Joseph F. McCrindle.
Summary
Regarding his nomination by the President as Second Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, alongside Chief Justice John Jay and his associates John Rutledge, James Wilson [?], Robert Harrison, William Cushing and John Blair, "the station is honorable and the salary of $3500 /ann. [?] not contemptible altho neither comes up to my wishes for you, but you must accept, it is said here that Mr. Rutledge will not accept"; regarding Mr. Hopkins, appointed District Judge, who has enemies slandering him; expressing his hope that the Convention has positive results for Philadelphia; explaining that he has "laboured hard to bring Congress into the neighborhood of our city" but all depends on tomorrow in the House of Representatives.
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