Auction Date:2013 Mar 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
General (1751–1829) during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 who served as secretary of war under Thomas Jefferson. ALS, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 8 x 9.75, June 12, 1824. Letter to his son General Henry Dearborn written while serving as Prime Minister plenipotentiary of Portugal. In part; “Having received no intimation from our Government that I may return home, I begin to suspect that the President considers himself to be the best Judge of the propriety of my continuing or not, and I shall act accordingly, but whether I am allowed to return this summer or not, your Mother and Laura and Nancy and Henry with his wife, will return, they will sail in a large ship belonging to Boston Capt. Austen, which will probably sail about the first week in July…our hope that I may be permitted to return with them, if not I shall endeavor to make myself as easy as possible. His most faithfull [sic] Majesty has at last ordered a Cortes to be assembled, composed (as of old) of the three estates, the Nobles, Clergy and Commons and has also published an amnesty, for past political sins with too great a number of exceptions, no permanent arrangement of his cabinet has yet been concluded on, things remain at loose ends. Unfortunately for the British interest, a bickering has commenced between Sir Edward Thornton and Lord Beresford, which will probably give an advantage here to the French interest. I am merely a spectator, having given over all hopes of effecting anything by way of a commercial arrangement, and of course I can be of no use here.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature.
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