BIB_ID
105732
Accession number
MA 554.6
Creator
Whipple, William, 1730-1785.
Display Date
1778 Oct. 13.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Hon'ble / Josiah Ba[r]tlett Esqr / Member of Congress / Philadelphia."
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Concerning his arrival in Philadelphia to take his seat in Congress; saying he hopes to be there by the first of November and asking him not to leave Philadelphia until he arrives.
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