Claude François Beaulieu Autograph letter signed Debt & pension USA 1820

  

Autograph letter signed by an unfortunate cripple, 1820. Autograph letter signed by Claude François Beaulieu, dated December 1, 1820, in London, concerning a debt that his correspondent has not repaid and does not seem willing to pay. Written in brown ink on a single sheet of vellum paper. “I was very surprised, my dear sir, when I received the returned bill of exchange that I drew on you, in favor of Mr. [Bower] Washington, for the sum of one hundred dollars, coming from my last pension, which your brother in Baltimore collected for me at the treasury, and which you had promised to send me as soon as you arrived in America; but I see that, by all the evasions you resort to, you have no desire whatsoever to settle the payment...

while withholding the fruit of an unfortunate cripple, and almost blind.” Condition: See photos for more details. Dimensions: 18.6 x 22.8 cm.

Number of pages: 2 pages. Claude François Beaulieu, born Claude Benoît Pioche in Riom in 1754 and died on September 23, 1827, in Louveciennes, was a French journalist. Autograph letters, old papers, old books, photographs, engravings, stamps... We appraise and/or buy throughout France your letters, letter collections, and old books. Please feel free to contact me.

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