10. GEORGE CLYMER (1739-1813) Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, a member of the Continental Congress and the 1st Congress. Fine content A.L.S. "Geo. Clymer" with franked address leaf "Free G. Clymer" as Rep. From Pennsylvania, 2pp. 8vo., New York, "Tuesday" [likely Aug. 4, 1789] to fellow Signer James Wilson. Clymer notes that before receiving Wilson's letter: "...I had determined ag[ains]t meeting our assembly believening my presence there would rather injure than aid the cause of the Convention; or any other cause I should attach myself to, so full are all our letters of the resoundings of rage and violence against us for a late vote. If it however is thought my duty to meet a storm I will not fail to do it...Thursday a question concerning permanent residency [to establish citizenship] is to be brought on by the Penn'a. delegates. This I suppose will end in nothing. Here is a Choice of curses left for me - having learnt that I was not sent here to judge but to be judged..." Very good. Wilson was attending Pennsylvania's constitutional convention where delegates were re-working the commonwealth's 1776 constitution. Clymer, an Anti-Federalist, is in this letter clearly fed-up and despairing - no surprise, as the First Congress was predominantly Federalist in composition. $800-1,200