BIB_ID
129779
Accession number
MA 157.61
Creator
Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829.
Display Date
1797 July 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with remnants of a seal to "Elbridge Gerry Esq'r / Envoy Extraordinary & Minister / Plenip'y &c &c / Boston."
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.
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
Enclosing a letter for "bankers of the U. States at Amsterdam containing 50,314 guilders & nine Stivers, to be placed to the credit of this department, to enlarge the diplomatic fund in their hands."
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