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- GLC#
- GLC03805.01
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 October 1837
- Author/Creator
- Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
- Title
- [Call for a convention of bankers in order to effect resumption of specie payments].
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 33.3 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Also signed by George Newbold and Cornelius W. Lawrence. This circular letter addressing the Panic of 1837, invites bankers "in the several states" to meet on 27 November in New York City "for the purpose of conferring on the time when specie payments may be resumed with safety, and on the measures necessary to effect that purpose." This copy is addressed to William Richmond, President of the Merchants Bank, Providence, Rhode Island. Signed as a member of the committee appointed by the officers of the banks of New York. At the time Gallatin was President of the National Bank of New York.
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