St. Paul's Cathedral collection, volume 3 : letters, documents, portraits, and prints, 1677 May 3-1720 Apr. 27 and undated.

Record ID: 
108112
Accession number: 
MA 422.1-3a
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description: 
1 v. (4 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 3 (MA 422) contains the following items: a receipt signed by William Sancroft, dated 1677 May 3 (MA 420.1); an undated autograph signature of Gilbert Sheldon (MA 420.2); a fragment of an autograph receipt signed by Sir James Thornhill, dated 1720 Apr. 27 (MA 420.3); and a printed pamphlet beginning, "You perceive by His Majesties Letters Patents for rebuilding the Cathedral Church of St. Pauls" (MA 422.3a).

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