BIB_ID
125472
Accession number
MA 835.4
Creator
Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792.
Display Date
1782 Mar. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1912.
Summary
Expressing his concern "for the difficulties that seem to stand in the way of what I mentioned respecting you to the Minister of Finance and of the Marine;" discussing a possible meeting with him in Newbury; enclosing a Guinea and asking that he buy hair powder and send it to him as "entre nous there is none of that Luxury to be had here, except such as is impregnated with Luxurious Mites."
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