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LEE, RICHARD HENRY, Signer (Virginia). Autograph letter signed ("Richard Henry Lee") to Colonel Fitzgerald, New York, 4 May 1785. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, cleanly separated along folds (restorable), second leaf neatly inlaid [with] Autograph free frank ("R.H. Lee") on folded cover sheet addressed in Lee's hand to "Col. Fitzgerald Merchant in Alexandria Virginia," black indistinct straightline datestamp and "Free" handstamp, red wax seal, recipient's docket. (2)
"Your favor of April the 20th enclosing a bill on Boston for $200 our currency is this moment come to hand. I will endeavor to dispose of it in this city. I thank you Sir for your obliging offer of subscribing to the Potomac Navigation for me, but as I hope to pass thro Alexandria in June or July when Congress adjourns, I will suspend my subscription until I have the pleasure of seeing you. We have no news here of any consequence. The Emperors quarrel with the Dutch seems to be quieted, but it is not improbable that a war between him & Prussia will take place. Congress has taken the most effectual steps in their power to quiet the Barbary Pirates, so as to prevent their hostilities upon our Commerce...."
"Your favor of April the 20th enclosing a bill on Boston for $200 our currency is this moment come to hand. I will endeavor to dispose of it in this city. I thank you Sir for your obliging offer of subscribing to the Potomac Navigation for me, but as I hope to pass thro Alexandria in June or July when Congress adjourns, I will suspend my subscription until I have the pleasure of seeing you. We have no news here of any consequence. The Emperors quarrel with the Dutch seems to be quieted, but it is not improbable that a war between him & Prussia will take place. Congress has taken the most effectual steps in their power to quiet the Barbary Pirates, so as to prevent their hostilities upon our Commerce...."