BIB_ID
129539
Accession number
MA 1019 (in MA 965)
Creator
Patterson, William, 1752-1835.
Display Date
1803 Nov. 16.
Credit line
Gift of Dr. Rosenbach, 1924.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 26 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and adddressed to "I.A. Dallas Esqr / Philadelphia."
Part of a collection of letters concerning the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Miss Elizabeth Patterson; see collection-level record for MA 965 for more information.
N.B. Elizabeth Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte were married in Baltimore on 24 December 1803.
Part of a collection of letters concerning the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Miss Elizabeth Patterson; see collection-level record for MA 965 for more information.
N.B. Elizabeth Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte were married in Baltimore on 24 December 1803.
Provenance
Gift of Dr. Rosenbach in 1924.
Summary
Concerning the break up of daughter's (Elizabeth) engagement to Jerome Bonaparte stating that he had "uniformly considered the union... too precarious and too dangerous."
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