BIB_ID
106252
Accession number
MA 90.1
Creator
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Display Date
1650 Apr. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item ( 1 p., with address), unbound ; 33.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed on the address panel.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Oliver Cromwell. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Shorthand notes on verso dated 3 June 1650 and signed with Richard Mayor's initials.
With address panel and seal "For my very loving Brother Richard Mayor / Esq att Hurstly in Hampsheir / theise."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Oliver Cromwell. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Shorthand notes on verso dated 3 June 1650 and signed with Richard Mayor's initials.
With address panel and seal "For my very loving Brother Richard Mayor / Esq att Hurstly in Hampsheir / theise."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F.T. Sabin in 1905.
Summary
Saying to relate the "state of our affairs here were more than indeed I had leisure well to do;" saying that the "taking of the citty of Kilkenny hath been one of our last works, w'ch indeed I believe hath been a great discomposing of the enimie, it's so much in their bowells;" sending his regards to his family.
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