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GEORGE III; KING OF ENGLAND. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed,
“GeorgeR,” appointing William Price Captain Lieutenant in the army. Countersigned by
the Earl of Suffolk. 12x16 inches; some staining at folds, near-complete loss to wax seal.
“Court at St. James’s” [London], 9 June 1774
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GREELEY, HORACE. Autograph Letter Signed, to Charles Sears, concerning
money-making schemes and finances [of the Albany branch of the socialist agricultural
colony, the North American Phalanx, headed by Sears]. 3 pages, 8vo, written on a single
folded sheet; nearly complete separation at center vertical fold, moderate toning overall,
some scattered staining, minor loss to lower edge of terminal leaf.
NewYork, 9 May 1857
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. . . I, too, think it worth as much as leached ashes, but I don’t consider them worth over 10
cents a bushel any where.Yet this must be a good article for Long Island sands, and for the
coasts of our Rivers. I think a circular sent to City men who have out-of-town residences up the
Hudson and Sound would be sure to bring some orders. . . . [T]he Phalanx ought to here get
rich by offering it to co-ops. . . .”
“I CAN BE JUSTTO JEFFERSONWITHOUT BEING UNJUSTTO HAMILTON”
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GREELEY, HORACE. Autograph Letter Signed, to H.S. Randol, declining to par-
ticipate in a debate concerning some of the principles of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander
Hamilton except on his own peculiar terms. 2 pages, small 4to, with integral blank; short
separation at horizontal fold.
NewYork, 23 March 1858
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. . . I don’t feel sure that I shall care to enter
upon the contest . . . because I grow old and
weary of contention, and I feel that to enter
upon the controversy you provoke would place
me in the category where I regret to find
you
—this is, of a decrier of one half our
Revolutionary patriots for the aggrandize-
ment of the other half. Now I feel that I can
be just to Jefferson without being unjust to
Hamilton. But, if I dispute with you (since it
will never do to make a dozen different points
of controversy), I shall take my stand in
Hamilton’s views of Finance, and especially
his Funding System, whereby he was first
brought in direct collision with Jefferson. To
vindicate him in this point, I must assail
Jefferson, and that is just what I would avoid,
for, though I hold J[efferson] wrong there, I
regard him as right in so much that I do not
wish to place myself in a false position by
seeming to be his adversary. . . . If . . . I attack
Jefferson or you in defense of Hamilton, it
will be understood by you as an invitation to you to reply through The Tribune. I believe neither
Jefferson nor you can complain if I choose that point of attack or defense.”
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GUILBERT, YVETTE. Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Mr. Levysohn,” in
French, requesting that he insert a note. 1 page, 8vo, “Carlton Hotel” stationery; horizontal
fold.
London, 7 July no year
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