Moses Michael Hays. Autograph Letter Signed, written to Michael Gratz.

Auction 92 | Thursday, February 18th, 2021 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts

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Lot 140

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

Moses Michael Hays. Autograph Letter Signed, written to Michael Gratz.

Hays announcers the dispatch of a vessel to Georgia and promises to shortly remit bills of credit; he also complains here to his business associate Gratz about the postal service. One page, with address on verso, also bearing a straight line New York postmark and bishop’s mark. 4to.

New York: 12th December 1768

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

“I would have wrote p[er] the Last Post But the Devilish Post coming so very Irregular that we have not an an opp[ortunity] of writing one a week.” Whatever the state of the post in 1768, business continues, and Hays fills Gratz in here concerning commercial interests in Georgia and Newport.