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BURR, AARON, Vice-President. Letter signed ("Aaron Burr") as N.Y. Senator, to an unidentified recipient [James Monroe?], New York, 18 June 1794. 2 pages, 4to, 230 x 189 mm. (9 x 7½ in.), docketed in left margin of verso "Aaron Burr New York June 18 1794 Letter to Jas Monroe."
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BURR, AARON, Vice-President. Letter signed ("Aaron Burr") as N.Y. Senator, to an unidentified recipient [James Monroe?], New York, 18 June 1794. 2 pages, 4to, 230 x 189 mm. (9 x 7½ in.), docketed in left margin of verso "Aaron Burr New York June 18 1794 Letter to Jas Monroe."
BURR TO MONROE ON SECRET CYPHERS: "You must have rec[eive]d Mr. Prevost's final answer before you left Philad[elphi]a. He has the utmost sensibility to your goodness & politeness. Yet the possibility of remaining without resource, is a hazard which he thinks his circumstances will not warrant him to encounter: and from motives of delicacy he will not allow me to interfere...If you should be at any time without a Secretary and should choose to receive him...he will cheerfully obey your summons. You will find me a very punctual correspondent and the more extensive the cypher is (which you proposed to make) the more interesting may our letters be to each other. A name which will occur frequently, had best be designated by two or three different characters. I leave this wholly to you..."
BURR TO MONROE ON SECRET CYPHERS: "You must have rec[eive]d Mr. Prevost's final answer before you left Philad[elphi]a. He has the utmost sensibility to your goodness & politeness. Yet the possibility of remaining without resource, is a hazard which he thinks his circumstances will not warrant him to encounter: and from motives of delicacy he will not allow me to interfere...If you should be at any time without a Secretary and should choose to receive him...he will cheerfully obey your summons. You will find me a very punctual correspondent and the more extensive the cypher is (which you proposed to make) the more interesting may our letters be to each other. A name which will occur frequently, had best be designated by two or three different characters. I leave this wholly to you..."