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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01542-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 August 1782
- Author/Creator
- Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
- Title
- to Benjamin Lincoln
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 23.1 cm, Width: 20.9 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Marked "copy." Written from the "Office of Finance." Addressee inferred because letter is addressed to "Secretary at War," a post occupied in 1782 by Benjamin Lincoln. Writes, "I have received your letter of the nineteenth of August, and would have answered it more speedily could I have answered it satisfactorily. I must now inform you that I cannot undertake to pay the sums you mention for the purchase of shells without diverting money from services which are indispensable. Many such services are now suffering." Written in the hand of William Jackson, Lincoln's assistant.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
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