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Lot 36: Aaron Burr Autograph Letter 1829

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Lot   36: Aaron Burr Autograph Letter 1829
<b>Autographs</b><hr><b>Aaron Burr Autograph Letter Signed</b>

<b>AARON BURR, Vice President of the U.S.; Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator.</b>
Autograph Letter Signed, 'A. Burr,' June 21, 1829, New York, 9.5' x 8', Choice Very Fine. To his longtime friend and client, Martha Bradstreet, concerning the apparent tampering with their correspondence. In part: '...Your letters for France were... put into the mail Bag of the Packet Ship 'The Havre'....I must apologize, without being able to account for, the circumstance of the unsealed letter, nor can I, from memory, declare by whose hand that letter was written; but shall be able to disclose this by personal inspection when I shall have the pleasure to see in in Albany....' Slight smudge to the 'A' in BurrÕs signature. Boldly written and signed in dark brown ink. The integral address leaf has a red circular 'NEW-YORK JUN 22' postmark. Burr served with distinction in the Continental Army at the battles of Quebec, Monmouth, and New Haven. He is best remembered for taking the life of Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. After conspiring with General James Wilkinson to create a new republic in the Southwest, he was arrested in 1807, tried for treason, and acquitted. He went abroad in 1808 and tried but failed to interest the English and French in his schemes. In 1812, he returned to the U.S. and resumed his law practice.