Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 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
‘Financier of the Revolution,’ and one of only two signers of all three of the founding documents—The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Revolutionary War-dated LS signed “Robt Morris,” one page, 7.5 x 9, February 7, 1783. Circular letter, in his capacity as Superintendent of Finance, addressed in the lower left in Morris’s hand, “His Excelly, The President of New Hampshire.” In full: “I do myself the honor to enclose the Copies of certain Acts & Orders of Congress of the twelfth seventeen and eighteenth Instant. I am to entreat that your Excellency will take the earliest Opportunity of submitting them to the Legislature of your State.” Some scattered light soiling and some light mirroring of ink from folding, otherwise fine, clean condition. Accompanied by a nice engraving of Morris.
Beginning in 1781, Morris served as the Superintendent of Finance, taking control of the economy of the fledgling United States. The Acts and Orders of Congress referred to in this letter were of the first rulings set in place to define the relationship between the federal and state financial systems, addressing duties on imports, individual states’ financial and provisional contributions to the federal government, and government-paid employees. To build a unified nation, the government had to account for and regulate who contributed what and how much, and for the first time in American history, Robert Morris began to do just that. In this letter to the President of New Hampshire, he is distributing the new Congressional rulings to a state that during the same year only contributed $3000 of beef to the war effort, making the need for these rulings abundantly clear. An important document regarding some of the earliest financial decisions made for the new American nation.
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