Letter, Corbin Washington to Edmund Lee

Containers:

Box 31, Folder 1798.05.13

Creator:

Washington, Corbin, 1764-1799

Scope and content:

A.L.S. 2 pages. Bushfield. Corbin writes his apologies for not writing more often and says that "the circumstances of my family have shut me out from all information, and rendered me entirely dependant on my friends for now and then a gleam of light" -- while professing to be apolitical, he recognizes that private happiness depends on proper functioning of "the great public machine" -- his wife recovers her health -- the Leeton family arrived in good health. Autograph letter signed, docketed by Lee (?), integral cover, laminated. Date on original catalog card appears [17]98 May 13.

Names:

Washington, Corbin, 1764-1799

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