PROPERTY FROM THE CHARLES E. SIGETY COLLECTION
MORRIS, Robert. Autograph letter, unsigned, to John Nicholson, [2 May 1794]. 2 pages, 4to. Docketed and dated by Nicholson on verso.
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MORRIS, Robert. Autograph letter, unsigned, to John Nicholson, [2 May 1794]. 2 pages, 4to. Docketed and dated by Nicholson on verso.
A contentious financial document between the two principal partners of the North American land Company. Morris titles this memorandum, “List of bills that were returned, protested & afterwards paid in London,” and then lists eight transactions and the amounts in question. He also reproduces an “extract of letter 5 Feby. 1794” that reads: “Thos. & Stephen Wilson holders of Mr Nicholson’s bills…”—here Nicholson underlines his name and writes over it “Your”—“who notwithstanding we very earnestly requested them to keep the bill until the departure of the Packet (this day) determined suddenly to return both Saturday…This behavior, so ungenteel & so contrary to what we should have expected from any person, that we conceive their chief motive in acting so unhandsome a manner was to get the re-exchange in America…”
A contentious financial document between the two principal partners of the North American land Company. Morris titles this memorandum, “List of bills that were returned, protested & afterwards paid in London,” and then lists eight transactions and the amounts in question. He also reproduces an “extract of letter 5 Feby. 1794” that reads: “Thos. & Stephen Wilson holders of Mr Nicholson’s bills…”—here Nicholson underlines his name and writes over it “Your”—“who notwithstanding we very earnestly requested them to keep the bill until the departure of the Packet (this day) determined suddenly to return both Saturday…This behavior, so ungenteel & so contrary to what we should have expected from any person, that we conceive their chief motive in acting so unhandsome a manner was to get the re-exchange in America…”