Superb Gallatin LS RE: "Case of the Schooner 'Flensburg'"

1p, 7.75” x 8.5” Single Page LS, Albert Gallatin, Dated May 30, 1808 and written to James H. McCulloch of Baltimore. Signed in full by Gallatin as “Albert Gallatin”. The signature is dark and bold. With expected flattened folds from mailing, dealer's notes in pencil and evidence of prior mounting on verso.

The letter reads:

Sir, 

Mr. Pederson Chargé d'Affairs for Denmark, being very anxious for a decision in the case of the schooner "Flensburg", I have to request that you will favor me with a statement of facts in relation to that vessel as soon as possible.

I am, very respectfully

Sir

Your overt. Serv't

Albert Gallatin"

Albert Gallatin was a Genevan-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. Biographer Nicholas Dungan states that Gallatin was "America's Swiss Founding Father."

Gallatin, best known as President Thomas Jefferson's secretary of the Treasury, opposed the U.S. Constitution because he feared the loss of individual freedoms under it. He remained concerned about civil liberties, including those in the First Amendment, once the Constitution was adopted.

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