ROBERT MORRIS (1734 - 1806) Signer of the Declaration of Independence, financier and politician. Morris was instrumental in the financing of Washington's armies, and was later financially ruined through his speculation in western lands. Good content A.L.S. as Senator, 1p. 4to., Philadelphia, Apr. 8, 1792 to Benjamin Walker in New York. In part: "...[I] told Capt. Williamson that Five Hundred Dollars were at his Command...He says this is not enough and requires that the fifteen hundred Dollars which I am now to pay should be held for him, and as I know that his Claims are sufficiently important to justify this demand I shall comply therewith and transmit you his receipts for the same, not doubting you approbation, or that of all parties concerned... " Boldly penned, only light scattered foxing, else very good. In an early frame. Charles Williamson was the first land agent for the Pultney Estates, controlling over one million acres of land in upstate New York, and later taking over some of Morris' own landholdings. Walker served in the Revolution as an aide to both Steuben and Washington, then became a broker in New York City. In 1797 he became agent of the vast estates of the Earl of Lute in central New York, a position in which he likely also dealt with Morris during the latter's misguided land speculations. $800-1,200