The four-page letter above, written by George Washington to his nephew Bushrod Washington on November 9, 1787, goes on sale December 4 at Christie’s auction house in New York City. It was penned a few days after Washington returned from the constitutional convention in Philadelphia and contains sentiments from Washington on the ratification process, then underway. "If . . . the Union of the whole is a desirable object,” he writes in an orderly penmanship, “the parts which compose it must yield a little in order to accomplish it.” Christies estimates the final sale of the 224 year old letter will be somewhere between $1.5 and 2.5 million.
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