Winter Autograph, Art and Sports Auction
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Taylor ("of Caroline") was a Political writer, Continental officer, U.S. Senator. Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages, 4to, Richmond, November 18, 1789. To Charles Lee, Alexandria attorney, second Attorney General of the United States.
A scarce autograph, the influential Taylor has here written about a legal case. "Baker came to court & obtained a verdict against Lithgow ... without my observing it. .. but upon enquiring after the cause, I found it out in half an hour, and ... smelt out Bullitt as knowing something of Triplett's hand writing ... 1 kicked up the devil of a dust, set Baker's verclict aside and the cause was continued until the next court. Judge Bullitt's recollection of Triplett's hand writing does not seem to me to be sufficiently decisive ... Baker suspecting I could support this fact better than r really could, I gladly closed with him in a continuance. But if you are not well prepared to prove this at the next court, you may lose ... tell Mr. Lithgow, that I should not have taken any compensation from him, and that the pleasure of serving a brother of our order, was a better security for my attention to the suit, than even a fee ... " Fine condition with address
John Taylor ("of Caroline")
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