BIB_ID
102169
Accession number
MA 739.2
Creator
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 18 letters, bills, and documents of the English historian Edward Gibbon. Items are cataloged individually in 18 records (MA 739.1-18); see collection record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Discussing present negotiations of peace, noting that he is "ignorant of how [he] may appear qualified to co-operate ... in this important and salutary work." Mentioning France, and stating that his "love of ease and literary leisure shall never stand in competition with the obligations of duty."
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