BIB_ID
102943
Accession number
MA 157.54
Creator
Homans, Benjamin, 1765-1823.
Display Date
1812 Feb. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.0 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Place of writing is not provided however Munroe & French were printers in Boston in 1812, later relocating to Baltimore.
Place of writing is not provided however Munroe & French were printers in Boston in 1812, later relocating to Baltimore.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Informing them that the "Governor wishes to have the original herein alluded to as soon as convenient;" including Munroe & French's signed reply on the verso; saying that they mislaid it and it is"possibly destroyed."
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