BIB_ID
104798
Accession number
MA 157.85
Creator
Jenks, William, 1778-1866.
Display Date
1798 Nov. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Document in the hand of Samuel Cooper, Notary Public of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, with his signature as "Justice Peace."
Endorsed on verso as follows: "authenticated Copies of Mr. Talleyrands (french Minister of foreign affairs), letters to Mr. Gerry, numbered in his dispatches to the Secretary of State of the U States 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 47, 43, 44 & 46 from the 3'd April to the 3'd of August 1798."
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.
Endorsed on verso as follows: "authenticated Copies of Mr. Talleyrands (french Minister of foreign affairs), letters to Mr. Gerry, numbered in his dispatches to the Secretary of State of the U States 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 47, 43, 44 & 46 from the 3'd April to the 3'd of August 1798."
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Certifying that he "copied the papers, annexed to this Notarial Certificate, from the original french papers, & that they are true Copies."
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