The confidential correspondence of Robert Morris, the great financier of the Revolution, and signer of the Declaration of Independence ...
Subtitle: to be sold Tuesday afternoon and evening, Jan. 16th, 1917
Publisher: Stan. V. Henkels
Published: 1917
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 464 lots.

"Catalogue no. 1183."

" ... embracing letters of the most vital historical importance from signers of the Declaration of Independence (many of them written in 1776), members of the Continental Congress, generals, commodores, and other officers and patriots in the Revolution; being the most important collection of letters ever offered, relating to events in the American Revolution and all of a confidential nature."

Lugt, 76355

Date of sale: January 16, 1917

Place of sale: Philadelphia.

Gift; Seymour Durst; 2012. plate:seymourdurst