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Richard Henry Lee ALS

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Richard Henry Lee ALS
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Autograph letter signed by Declaration of Independence Signer Richard Henry Lee, mentioning George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. Here, Lee writes as Member of the Continental Congress from Chantilly, Virginia on 8 March 1777 to Virginia's Lieutenant Governor John Page. In part, ''Dear Sir: I arrived here yesterday evening after 6 days disagreeable travel thro the snow. Mrs. Lee's anxiety to see her children after 6 months absence prevailed with me, on the adjournment of Congress, to bring her home - In ten days I shall return to the busy scene - Your brother & his Lady had the smallpox in the mildest manner imaginable - The inclosed is contracted from a very sensible Memoir sent to Congress by a French Artist, and which may avail us greatly in the construction of our Provincial Frigates. It is intended for the use of our Navy board, to whom I should have written if the Express were not waiting for my dispatches. Gen How having landed in person at Amboy, with a reenforcement, and some heavy Artillery occassions much speculation, and makes it to be greatly lamented that the new raised Troops go so slowly up to Head Quarters - The American Army is now much inferior in number to the British, and yet, were 15,000 Men now with General Washington; he might finish the business of next summer this winter. By a letter from our Agent in Martinique 7th Jany, I consider the war between Spain & Portugal as certainly commenced this in South America, and we learn that Doctor Franklin arrived safe at Nantes the 6 December & went directly to Paris...Richard Henry Lee.'' Integral leaf addressed by Lee to ''Honorable John Page esquire / at / Williamsburg.'' Letter is in very good condition.