BIB_ID
129609
Accession number
MA 157.60
Creator
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829.
Display Date
1797 July 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "Elbridge Gerry Esq'r / Cambridge / (Boston Post Office)."
Endorsed on address panel.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from the "Department of State."
Endorsed on address panel.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from the "Department of State."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of his letter and informing him he has shown it to the President; telling him that as General Marshall is in Philadelphia and "ready to depart the moment a vessel shall be Sailing for Holland or Some adjacent port, the President thinks it will be best for you to take your passage from Boston;" adding that "instructions and other papers necessary for your information" will be sent to him.
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