St. Paul's Cathedral collection, volume 2 : letters, documents, portraits, and prints, [15--?]-1768 Sept. 24.

Record ID: 
103803
Accession number: 
MA 421.1-5
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description: 
1 v. (5 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 56.3 cm
Summary: 

The St. Paul's Cathedral collection (MA 420-424) includes autograph letters and documents from various people with some relation to St. Paul's Cathedral. Individual items in the collection are separately cataloged; other items have been removed from the volumes and are separately housed and individually cataloged. Volume 2 (MA 421) contains the following items: a document signed by William Juxon and Francis Cottington, dated 1634 Oct. (MA 421.1); a letter signed from William Juxon to Sir Robert Pye, dated 1637 Apr. 3 (MA 421.2); a document signed by Edward Smith and Brackley Kennett, dated 1768 Sept. 24 (MA 421.3); a receipt signed by Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, dated 1738 Jan. 31 (MA 421.4); and an undated fragment of a legal document signed by Sir Nicholas Bacon and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke (MA 421.5).

Binding: 
Three-quarter blue leather over cloth by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd.
Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1906.