ALS signed “A. Burr,” one page both sides, 6 x 8.25, March 1791. Letter to New York Senator Samuel Jones, in part: "Several gentlemen have called on me to urge the introduction of the bills relative to Criminal law—I have engaged to draw several of them, and have them, in such forwardness that they will be ready at the meeting of the House tomorrow…pray do not omit to draw the Bill for the object last mentioned." Burr adds a brief postscript: "I will meet you this evening if agreeable to you at any hour before half past eleven." In very good condition, with staining, foxing, paper loss to the edges, and several small old tape repairs. In March 1791, Burr was elected by the legislature as a US Senator from New York, defeating the incumbent General Philip Schuyler (the father-in-law of Burr's rival Alexander Hamilton, who Burr would famously kill in an 1804 duel).
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