BIB_ID
102576
Accession number
MA 552.26
Creator
Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814.
Display Date
1784 Apr. 21.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
Summary
Commenting on a letter recently published in the Virginia Gazettes; noting that "Mr. [Samuel] Osgood wrote [him] from Philadelphia, that the General Assembly of that State, had appointed a Committee on the Letter, having been much alarmed on its first appearance"; giving his opinion of Annapolis and reporting, "this is not a place capable of administering much to my pleasure, or of promoting my Happiness"; mentioning that "our Commissioners are ordered to attend to the Subject of Complaint ... respecting the prize Money of our Seamen"; adding that "the portraits of the King and Queen of France [Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette] are arrived at Philadelphia."
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