Letter to Postmaster General

Authors

Philander Chase

Files

Description

Fragmentary. Philander Chase needs glasses to write his letters in his old age.

Date

5-27-1847

Keywords

Philander Chase, founding fathers, George Washington, United States, early republic, glasses, sight, old age

Transcript

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[…]racy in acc[…]

[...]liance with Orders due

[...]ys for the good of the country and [?] Noble Institutions of Religion and learning so much wanted in the West and Far West of our Rising Republic. I am now past the age assigned to man being in my seventy second year; and may truly say as the Father of our liberties said at Newbury near West Point -- “I have not only grown Old & gray, but blind in my country’s service; and therefore must use my spectacles” (& here the Gen’l took them form his pocke[t] to read his speech I to write my letter) to s[ay] that I am Dear Sir

Your very sincere friend &

Obedient Servant

Philander Chase Bp. of Ill

P.M. Robins Nest Ill

Recommended Citation

Chase, Philander, "Letter to Postmaster General" (1847). Philander Chase Letters. 1294.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/1294