HALL, Lyman, Signer (Georgia) . Autograph letter signed ("L. Hall") to Susa Street, Georgia, 2 May 1785. 1 page, large folio, 312 x 188mm (12¼ x 7½in.), neatly backed and a fold separation mended, with address panel in Hall's hand cut from address leaf. "RAVAGES AND BLOODSHED" OF "THE LATE WAR" Hall writes to his sister in New England, expressing pleasure at their surviving the war, and being in good health: "...With health we enjoy real good, we relish all this world can give, it makes even winter warm & summer cool, it smiles on adversity, & suspects mortality. If death is not entirely banished, he is at least sent to a great distance...if we stand ready to receive him, so that when he summons us we can cheerfully obey & triumph over his sting!" Hall had suffered during the British campaigns in Georgia, losing his house and plantation, and writes: "I congratulate you on the conclusion of the late war, & particularly that notwithstanding the ravages & bloodshed of it extended so far, yet that it hath pleased God that we & our friends are alive & allowed to taste the blessings of Peace." In a postscript he asks her to send seeds from a friend's peach trees, "which were the best I ever saw of that kind." Hall's letters are quite rare, and very few allude to the event of the Revolution.
HALL, Lyman, Signer (Georgia) . Autograph letter signed ("L. Hall") to Susa Street, Georgia, 2 May 1785. 1 page, large folio, 312 x 188mm (12¼ x 7½in.), neatly backed and a fold separation mended, with address panel in Hall's hand cut from address leaf. "RAVAGES AND BLOODSHED" OF "THE LATE WAR" Hall writes to his sister in New England, expressing pleasure at their surviving the war, and being in good health: "...With health we enjoy real good, we relish all this world can give, it makes even winter warm & summer cool, it smiles on adversity, & suspects mortality. If death is not entirely banished, he is at least sent to a great distance...if we stand ready to receive him, so that when he summons us we can cheerfully obey & triumph over his sting!" Hall had suffered during the British campaigns in Georgia, losing his house and plantation, and writes: "I congratulate you on the conclusion of the late war, & particularly that notwithstanding the ravages & bloodshed of it extended so far, yet that it hath pleased God that we & our friends are alive & allowed to taste the blessings of Peace." In a postscript he asks her to send seeds from a friend's peach trees, "which were the best I ever saw of that kind." Hall's letters are quite rare, and very few allude to the event of the Revolution.
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