BIB_ID
125471
Accession number
MA 835.3
Creator
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
Display Date
1781 Nov. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Hector McNeil, Esq're / Boston."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters written by John Paul Jones to Captain Hector McNeill. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
There are two short letters, each signed, with essentially the same wording; the first to Hector McNeill and the second to James Degge.
Docketed on verso.
Part of a collection of letters written by John Paul Jones to Captain Hector McNeill. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
There are two short letters, each signed, with essentially the same wording; the first to Hector McNeill and the second to James Degge.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1912.
Summary
Enclosing an "Order on Mr. James Degge, late Lieutenant of the Alliance, for Cloth and trimmings for two suits of Naval Uniform , belonging to me, that was on board the Alliance when the command was Usurped at L'Orient."
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