Autograph Letter Signed. One page, 6 ¼" x 7 ¾". Lynn. July 25, 1789. Addressed on verso. The letter reads, in part: "…thank you for yr. information therein given; and I shou'd have publish'd part of it had I had leave to have done; but I acquainted some Gentlemen with yr. Contents and was urg'd to a publication. By yr way, I never make anything public, but what I suppose yr. Author wou'd be willing shou'd be made so. I suppose you will now be furnished with many new matters almost every day that we shou'd be glad to hear of, and I shall be much obliged to you for the earliest notice if you have leisure … The last week was our Court of Sessions at Salem, when I see a number of your Friends, Mr. Dane in particular; but he didn't appear fond that any body shou'd communicate anything as coming from our Representatives in Congress but himself, which was a means of restraining me, & I wonder at it, unless he thought that no other person was authorized- and I resented his behaviour as being ungentlemanlike, & it was thus judg'd by some Gentlemen … Mr. Hancock has so far recovered his health that he was at Commencement last week … What has been done by Congress gives universal satisfaction, which makes up for yr time spent.