Lot 1018
Clymer, George (1739-1813), Pennsylvania signer of the Declaration of Independence, Merchant.
Autograph Letter Signed, 2pp. plus separated address leaf, 8x6.25, New York City, Aug. 1789, signed "Geo. Clymer" as a representative from Pennsylvania with its original integral free franked "Free G. Clymer" address leaf to fellow Signer of the Declaration of Independence, James Wilson, Very Fine and choice.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
A CHOICE ALS WITH INTERESTING POLITICAL CONTENT BETWEEN TWO SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION.
In this letter, George Clymer notes that before receiving James Wilson's letter: "Till receipt of yours this evening I had determined ag[ains]t meeting our assembly believing my presence would rather injure than aid the cause of the Convention, or any other cause I should attach myself to, so full are all our letters of the resoundings of rage and violence against us for a late vote. If it however is thought my duty to meet a storm I will not fail to do it. But when I shall quit this place is not certain. Thursday a question concerning permanent residency (to establish citizenship) is to be brought on by the Penn'a. delegates. This I suppose will end in nothing, but the issue would be in part attributed to any one who should leave the question. - If at the same moment I ought to take in another place, here is a Choice of curses left for me. - having learnt that I was not sent here to judge but to be judged."
Wilson was attending Pennsylvania's Constitutional Convention where delegates were re-working the Commonwealth's 1776 Constitution.
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