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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(American Revolution) |
| Author: |
Lovell, James |
| Title: |
Autograph Letter Signed by James Lovell while a Delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War |
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Philadelphia |
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| Date: |
Dec. 27, 1779 |
| Item # : |
206455 |
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| Sale Number |
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431 |
| Lot Number |
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20 |
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| Americana & World History: Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera from the Library of Calvin P. Otto |
| Sale Date |
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07/01/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 780 |
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| Description: |
| 4 pp, on 4-page lettersheet. 30x18.5 cm. (11¾x7¼"). |
| James Lovell (1737-1814), Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress, writes in detail about various aspects of the war effort, most prominently about money and the equipping of the army: "We have but poor prospects here as to feeding cloathing or paying our army. The States must awake now if they are not in a dead Lethargy. Ruin...must now come if the states will not exert every Nerve for Taxation and also Supplies in Kind. We shall be also martyrs to the Farmer who has more than turned the tables upon the merchant... I do not despair that we shall find Food, but there is a great Deficiency of cloathing..." |
| Condition: |
| Neat repair along fold, else very good. |
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