Unsigned handwritten document by Henry Clay, six pages two sets of adjoining sheets, 7.75 x 12.5, July 9, 1823. Penned almost entirely in Clay's own hand (with the exception of the first three words and a section on the penultimate page), a legal complaint that "the President Director and Company of the Bank of Kentucky…that whereas the said President Director and Company…were indebted to the said plaintiff in the sum of ten thousand one hundred and twenty six dollars 96 cents…and being so indebted afterwards to wit on the same day and year and at the Circuit aforesaid the said defendants assumed upon themselves and to the said pltf. faithfully promised that they would well and truly pay to the said plaintiff the said sum of money whenever after they should be thereunto required…Nevertheless the said defendants…have not paid." In fine condition. Accompanied by a manuscript transcription of the document.
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