BIB_ID
104402
Accession number
MA 157.49
Creator
Kirkland, John Thornton, 1770-1840.
Display Date
1812 Feb. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Hon T.B. Adams / Boston."
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.
Two endorsements on verso.
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.
Two endorsements on verso.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Replying to his request for "information respecting the form in which the loan of arms for the students was made in 1786;" saying that he can "find no record or file which enables me fully to answer this inquiry" except for a note from the Committee of the Corporation which reported on the vote "to form regulations respecting the use of Sixty stands of arms lately loaned to the undergraduates by the governor, & for which the Corporation are responsible;" saying that he believes "it would be sufficient for me to acknowledge the receipt of the arms as a loan, the purpose & the conditions viz. that they be safely kept & preserved & returned in good order (or an equivalent for loss or damage) when the Executive shall judge that the public service requires."
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