BIB_ID
102686
Accession number
MA 739.3
Creator
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Display Date
1775 May 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.1 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
Enclosing a letter. Noting that "Parliament languishes and expires," and mentioning that they intend to spend two days discussing America.
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