Philip Barton Key (1757-1815; Loyalist officer during the Revolution, afterwards a prominent Maryland jurist and legislator, uncle of Francis Scott Key) autograph letter, signed, no place or date: opinion on the will of Richard Watkins with regard to the validity of life estates in real property, according to the Maryland Act of 1786; 1 p. small folio.

Two left corners missing, affecting the first word in each of the top two lines; separating along intersecting folds; encased in transparent tissue