LEE, Francis Lightfoot (1734-1797). Autograph letter signed (“F.L. Lee”) to Colonel William Augustine Washington, Menokin, 28 June, 1790.

LEE, Francis Lightfoot (1734-1797). Autograph letter signed (“F.L. Lee”) to Colonel William Augustine Washington, Menokin, 28 June, 1790.

Two pages, 200 x 160mm, bifolium, addressed in Lee's hand on the integral transmittal leaf and laid in to a larger sheet.

Lee, citing “pressing demands for money,” pursues William Augustine Washington for a debt. Lee reminds his correspondent that “the annual int[eres]t of my money, is all I have to depend upon for my support.” Assuring Washington of his confidence in his trustworthiness, he notes that “From your sending me only £45 last year, I apprehend you did not recollect a circumstance which passed when you, Wm. Jones, & myself settled this affair which was that £15 of the interest then due upon your Bond to Love was to be added to the capital of your bond to me.” The recipient, Col. William Augustine Washington, was the son of George Washington's older half-brother Augustine Washington II, and inheritor of the ancestral home, Wakefield.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY OF A LADY AND A GENTLEMAN