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to Joseph Harrison re: dissatisfaction with Massachusetts Assembly

Written at Grosvenor Square

GLC07654.31

to [George Grenville?] re: unrest in Charleston, S.C.

GLC07654.32

List of papers received by Grenville re: Stamp Act

GLC07654.33

Newspaper clipping re: anniversary of hanging of Stamp Tax Collector

GLC07654.34

to Ulysses S. Grant re: Mexico, maintaining a low profile

"I have acted altogether on the theory that the first and most important principle of my last mission was to get out of sight." With small note glued to back.

GLC07573

to W.C. Davis re: specie payments and gold

"I quite agree with you that we cannot both sell our gold and resume at the same time..."

GLC07575

to Eldest Magistrate of Berkeley Co. re: supplies needed by Continental Army

Printed circular letter addressed to the Eldest Magistrate in Berkeley County. "I am therefore to desire that you will be pleased to order the wag[g]on, team, driver, and appendages expected from your county...".

GLC07577

to John Lee re: foreign affairs

"It appears... that G.B. is beginning to relax in her injurious policy towards this country and that some favorable issue may be expected to the mission of Mr. Jay."

GLC07578

to Peter A. Jay re: Napoleon & the French Revolution

"There must be in the Republic an unprecedented & unparalleled want of virtue."

GLC07579

to Benjamin Rush re: economic policy, declaration of war

"The prudence of an individual is the policy of a nation. Self preservation is the first law of nature to both...France, under Washington's administration, had in defiance of all laws human and divine, plundered our commerce in every sin in Europe...

GLC07306