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Pierce Butler Autograph Letter Signed

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Pierce Butler Autograph Letter Signed
<B>Pierce Butler Autograph Letter Signed</B></I> “<I>P. Butler,</B></I>” two pages, 8” x 9.75”, front and verso. Philadelphia , April 21, 1819. Integral leaf addressed by Butler to “<I>Robert E. Griffith Esqr.</B></I>” The integral leaf is inlaid to an 8” x 13.25” sheet. In part, “<I>I demanded payment as my right.; if any objection had been raised to it, I would have considerd it as an insult; and have known how to resent it. I never once Sir, viewed you as my agent - our joint signatures to the various papers and to most of the letters are evidence of it…You incurred no expence. I was put to the expence of going two hundred miles to Charlotte, to bring the cause to a hearing; during the whole of the trial I attended the Court from nine o'clock in the morning 'till five in the evening - I had not one comfortable dinner but on Sundays during the trial…I needed no agent - I was equal to, and fully attended to my interest in the joint concern. I am ready to pay half of the expence for copying any documents.</B></I>” Pierce Butler, delegate to the Continental Congress, signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and, two years later, was elected one of South Carolina's first two U.S. Senators (1789-1796, 1802-1804). He was 74 years old when he made his 200 mile trip from Charleston to Charlotte and then wrote this letter. Fine condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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