Clymer, George (1739-1813) to Henry Clymer
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05725 Author/Creator: Clymer, George (1739-1813) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 November 1810 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 24 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
Follows a letter to his son about his business affairs (not included) because he found himself with extra paper. Compliments a studious young woman named Eliza, possibly of some relation to them. Praises a discourse by Joseph Hopkinson, the author of "Hail, Columbia," as vindicating "the Country from foreign Calumny, and contempt." On commerce and British-French hostilities, he noted that merchants were not inclined to rest American welfare on "French faith" and that "If this uncivilized war goes on for a few years, we shall become the most formidable pirates that the seas have ever known." Clymer was a signer of the Declaration of Independence who at the time of this writing presided over the Philadelphia bank and Academy of Fine Arts.
Signer of the U.S. Constitution.
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