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Collection of letters and documents related to Edmund Burke, with his will : London, Beaconsfield, etc., to various recipients, 1757 Aug. 7-1826 Sept. 25.

BIB_ID
108331
Accession number
MA 693.1-40
Display Date
1757 Aug. 7-1826 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 v. (40 items) : ill. (ports.) ; 45.6 cm
Notes
Some letters with postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Collection consists of sixteen autograph letters from Edmund Burke to recipients including the Marquess of Buckingham, Joseph Emin, Robert Fitzgerald, Philip Francis, John Coxe Hippisley, George Horne, Walker King, Edmond Malone, Garrett Nagle, Arthur Pigott, and George Leonard Staunton (MA 693.1 and 3-17); a copy of Burke's last will and testament (MA 693.18); a copy of a deed originally signed by Edmund and Jane Burke (MA 693.19); letters from Joseph Emin (MA 693.2), Jane Burke (MA 693.21-22), Richard Burke (MA 693.23), Giuseppe Baretti (MA 693.24), William Townshend (MA 693.25), Charles Butler (MA 693.26-28), T. Gillet (MA 693.29), the gentlemen's club Brooks's (MA 693.30), Thomas Hussey (MA 693.32-33), James King (MA 693.34), Charles Rivington (MA 693.35-37), George Rose (MA 693.38), and Walker King (MA 693.39); an autograph receipt signed by Jos. Winnock (MA 693.31); and manuscript notes about David Garrick (MA 693.40). Items are described in 40 individual records (MA 693.1-40).