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Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 to Daniel Parker

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.02848 Author/Creator: Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript letter Date: 22 December 1783 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 23.5 cm, Width: 19.3 cm Order a Copy

Requests a meeting with Parker to arrange "for the future Supply of the Posts. I am now to request that you will cause the Issues of Provisions to be made until further Order and that you will come on hither that I may adjust the Means of future Supply with you or if you decline it with some other Person." Noted as written from the "Office of Finance."

Signer of the U.S. Constitution.

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
Parker, Daniel, fl. 1781-1791

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