BIB_ID
126537
Accession number
MA 1101.1-38
Display Date
12-- - 1835.
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan Jr., 1931.
Description
38 items, unbound : vellum, various sizes
Notes
A typed inventory of documents is housed with the collection; the numbers on the inventory correspond to a numbering system on the verso of the documents. Descriptions for some items in the collection are taken from the Inventory description and are noted as such.
Housed with a letter from Mrs. Nigel Cholmeley-Jones of Westport, Connecticut, dated February 9, 1967 and addressed to Henry Sturgis Morgan enclosing 5 "old duplicate photographs" which an autograph note at the bottom "Wall Hall photos just prior to WWI, c. 1912. With notations on the back of 3 photographs as follows: 1) "Wall Hall" (Formerly "Aldenham Abbey") Aldenham, England (Begun by William of Normandy, "The Conqueror", in 1066;" 2) Cousin Jessie Morgan (Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr.) at "Wall Hall" (Garden) Aldenham, England (1901); 3) Jane Grew Morgan in garden at Aldenham England (Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr.).
Item number 6 on the inventory, "License of Alienation from Sir Thomas Glover to Edward Adams and Richard Amery" is cataloged and housed separately as MA 1066.
Items 1-3, 5a, 7-13, 15-18b and 22 are housed separately from the items in MA 1101.
Items numbered 4, 20 and 21 are listed as missing in the typed inventory that accompanies this collection and are not in the collection.
Part of a collection of manuscript documents relating to the ownership of Wall Hall. Manuscripts are described in individual records; see MA 1101.1-38 for more detail.
Wall Hall was purchased by J.P. Morgan in 1910.
Housed with a letter from Mrs. Nigel Cholmeley-Jones of Westport, Connecticut, dated February 9, 1967 and addressed to Henry Sturgis Morgan enclosing 5 "old duplicate photographs" which an autograph note at the bottom "Wall Hall photos just prior to WWI, c. 1912. With notations on the back of 3 photographs as follows: 1) "Wall Hall" (Formerly "Aldenham Abbey") Aldenham, England (Begun by William of Normandy, "The Conqueror", in 1066;" 2) Cousin Jessie Morgan (Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr.) at "Wall Hall" (Garden) Aldenham, England (1901); 3) Jane Grew Morgan in garden at Aldenham England (Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr.).
Item number 6 on the inventory, "License of Alienation from Sir Thomas Glover to Edward Adams and Richard Amery" is cataloged and housed separately as MA 1066.
Items 1-3, 5a, 7-13, 15-18b and 22 are housed separately from the items in MA 1101.
Items numbered 4, 20 and 21 are listed as missing in the typed inventory that accompanies this collection and are not in the collection.
Part of a collection of manuscript documents relating to the ownership of Wall Hall. Manuscripts are described in individual records; see MA 1101.1-38 for more detail.
Wall Hall was purchased by J.P. Morgan in 1910.
Summary
Collection of manuscript documents relating to the ownership of Wall Hall including deeds, leases, letters patent, conveyances and grants. The collection includes six miscellaneous bills and payment records. The items are described in 38 individual records; see individual records for details (MA 1101.1-38).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (44.4 cm)
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