MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed ("James Monroe"), as President, to John Watson Washington, 26 January 1822. 1 page, 4to, seal hole and remnant of seal, very discreet repairs to creases .
MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed ("James Monroe"), as President, to John Watson Washington, 26 January 1822. 1 page, 4to, seal hole and remnant of seal, very discreet repairs to creases . "YOU SEE...HOW HARDLY I HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH & WHAT HARD FORTUNE I HAVE HAD..." Monroe laments his financial difficulties to a fellow Virginian: "I am pressed by heavy duties during the Session of Congress, that I really am not able to do justice to my friends or to my own private concerns. I can only state at present that I will write to Mr. Randolph to accept your draft for three hundred dol r s, for the purposes mentioned in our late correspondence, that is, for Mr Bacon, the clover seed, & Mr Price & to draw on me for the amount, if necessary. I hope that my flour & tob c o will be hastened down to him as soon as possible as I wish to pay you out if it, & some other claims. You see enough of my affairs, to know how hardly I have been dealt with & what hard fortune I have had on the management of my private affairs, which I will feel through life." Like many debt-plagued Virginia planters, Monroe did indeed suffer from poor financial health throughout his life. Things only got worse after his presidency when he waged a lengthy battle with the Congress for reimbursement of his expenses incurred while serving as a diplomat overseas. He never achieved solvency and was forced in his final years to live under the roof of his adult daughter.
MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed ("James Monroe"), as President, to John Watson Washington, 26 January 1822. 1 page, 4to, seal hole and remnant of seal, very discreet repairs to creases .
MONROE, James. Autograph letter signed ("James Monroe"), as President, to John Watson Washington, 26 January 1822. 1 page, 4to, seal hole and remnant of seal, very discreet repairs to creases . "YOU SEE...HOW HARDLY I HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH & WHAT HARD FORTUNE I HAVE HAD..." Monroe laments his financial difficulties to a fellow Virginian: "I am pressed by heavy duties during the Session of Congress, that I really am not able to do justice to my friends or to my own private concerns. I can only state at present that I will write to Mr. Randolph to accept your draft for three hundred dol r s, for the purposes mentioned in our late correspondence, that is, for Mr Bacon, the clover seed, & Mr Price & to draw on me for the amount, if necessary. I hope that my flour & tob c o will be hastened down to him as soon as possible as I wish to pay you out if it, & some other claims. You see enough of my affairs, to know how hardly I have been dealt with & what hard fortune I have had on the management of my private affairs, which I will feel through life." Like many debt-plagued Virginia planters, Monroe did indeed suffer from poor financial health throughout his life. Things only got worse after his presidency when he waged a lengthy battle with the Congress for reimbursement of his expenses incurred while serving as a diplomat overseas. He never achieved solvency and was forced in his final years to live under the roof of his adult daughter.
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