BIB_ID
116767
Accession number
MA 554.43
Creator
Stockton, Richard, 1730-1781.
Display Date
1776 Mar. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
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.
The place of writing is somewhat illegible and may possibly be Morven.
The recipient is only identified as "Dear Madam" but from the contents of the letters it appears to be written to Elizabeth Fergusson, a close friend of Mrs. Stockton.
The place of writing is somewhat illegible and may possibly be Morven.
The recipient is only identified as "Dear Madam" but from the contents of the letters it appears to be written to Elizabeth Fergusson, a close friend of Mrs. Stockton.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Returning books that she lent his wife; saying that she would have written were she not "absolutely and every moment confined by the extreme illness of our dear little Abby, who has had a violent fever for these nine days past; some part of which time we have despaired of her life : but we now hope that she is mending, altho' so slow as almost to be imperceptible. We doubt not Mr. Fergusson and my brother are safe, as the Vessel they went in arrived safely at Bristol; but I have not yet rec'd a letter;" saying that he will immediately forward any letters he should receive from him and that he and Mrs. Stockton hope to visit her as soon as the roads become passable; encouraging her to maintain her "fortitude of spirit."
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