BIB_ID
119333
Accession number
MA 157.81
Creator
Young, Thomas, 1731-1777.
Display Date
1774 Mar. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.5 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Asa Orne & / Elbridge Gerry / Marblehead."
Endorsed on verso.
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.
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
Introducing William Goddard, "Printer in Philadelphia and Baltimore now on his tour to Portsmouth, calls on you at Marblehead...Considered as the originator of so salutary a plan to the Colonies he deserves our kindest notice were he less the Gentleman, the man of sense and spirit than he is : but in every light you view him you will find him agreeable."
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