ALS, one page both sides, 7.75 x 10, May 11, 1805. Letter to Senator John Smith of New York, discussing disputes between New York City and the state legislature; when DeWitt Clinton was elected as mayor of New York, Smith had been elected to fill his unexpired term in the Senate. In part: "There will be no hesitation on the part of our friends here to sanction your nomination of Mr. L'Hommedieu for a re-election. This city will I presume claim the other…we have been scandalously betrayed on the subject of the Merchants Bank and this City has been treated so ill in general by our late legislature, that…locality will be therefore a necessary ingredient in the selection of the candidate…dissatisfaction exists in the three western tons of Queens against Mr. L'Hommedieu on account of his pushing Mr. Weeks for Congress against their County nomination but these difficulties can be overcome…I have no doubt but that resentment will yield to patriotism…you may rely upon it that a scandalous scene of corruption has taken place which has extended beyond the Legislature. The next election will sweep most of the corrupt into merited insignificance." In very fine condition, with creasing, multiple intersecting folds, and seal-related paper loss to the integral address leaf.Format: ALS