BIB_ID
122212
Accession number
MA 1268.8
Creator
Lapeyrére, Sophie.
Display Date
[1806?] "28 thermidor."
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
The letter is simply dated "28 thermidor" but in the letter from John Macleod to Sir James Pulteney, in which this letter was enclosed (MA 1268.7) Macleod refers to this letter as being written "as her last adieu to me on leaving the Hautes Pyrenées." Macleod left France in 1806; 28 thermidor would have been August 16th in 1806.
Volume 11 (MA 1268) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1268.1-60).
Volume 11 (MA 1268) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1268.1-60).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Sending him two letters, one for her brother, a prisoner of war in England, and one for her cousin whose address she does not know; asking for any help he is able to provide to her brother.
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