Wayne, Anthony, Continental General

Autograph letter signed ("Anty Wayne"), 2 pages (9 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.; 231 x 185 mm), Philadelphia, 26 July 1791 to Samuel Howell and George Emlen, regarding the payment of a loan; a few repairs to fold separations, one closed tear. Together with: an engraved portrait of Wayne by Alonzo Chappel dated 1863. Tan linen folding case, brown morocco spine lettered gilt.

"The price of their Father's blood, shed in the defence of America & the rights of Mankind." In his struggle with debt, Wayne uses his Pennsylvania Revolutionary bonus certificates as collateral: "Permit me to return you many thanks for your kind friendship in obtaining the loan of Five Hundred Pounds for me, by a Negociation with the Bank, & also to request a statement of the Interest you paid with the interest received upon my Depreciation Certificates ... placed in your hands as ... security until the surplus of the interest arising thereon, should extinguish the said debt ... shou'd there be any balance due you I am ready to pay it upon sight — & to redeem those certificates, which I wish to transmit to my Children, being the price of their Father's blood, shed in the defence of America & the rights of Mankind."