BIB_ID
116750
Accession number
MA 157.105
Creator
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
Display Date
[1798 Aug. 3].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Date of writing is given as "le 16 Thermidor de l'an 6 de la Republique française, une et indivisible."
Endorsed on verso; indicating this is Letter No. 27.
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; indicating this is Letter No. 27.
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
Assuming that he has not yet departed, addressing to him an order from the Executive Directory which addresses the issues he spoke of in his letter of the 4th of this month; saying that it is now in the hands of the United States to reconcile the two nations.
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