BIB_ID
132334
Accession number
MA 22287
Creator
Monroe, James, 1758-1831, sender.
Display Date
Washington, D.C., 1816 March 12.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 25 x 19.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Joseph Gales Esquire."
Original paper seal with wax.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 6 of Monroe album.
Original paper seal with wax.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 6 of Monroe album.
Provenance
From Ford Collection.
Summary
Stating he wanted to go to dinner at his house that evening but responding to criticism, believed it would be improper to attend (Gales was a newspaper publisher and alderman in Washington D.C. at the time).
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