BIB_ID
102781
Accession number
MA 739.7
Creator
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794.
Display Date
1783 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 8.1 x 11.5 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.
Promissory note appears to have been cut in half. The full text of the promissory note and Gibbon's signature are lacking.
Promissory note appears to have been cut in half. The full text of the promissory note and Gibbon's signature are lacking.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Promising to pay Peter [Elmsley] £80. With Elmsley's signed note on verso, acknowledging receipt of the principal with interest, dated London, 1787.
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