BIB_ID
137570
Accession number
MA 9694
Creator
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Display Date
1807 August 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1902.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 15.8 x 9.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Shaw." This may be Thomas Shaw, who was conductor of the band at Drury Lane and proprietor of the Margate Theatre.
The date may have been added by another hand.
The date may have been added by another hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1902. This item was part of, and later removed from, an extra-illustrated copy of George Williams Fulcher, The Life of Thomas Gainsborough (London: [Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans], 1856.); PML 196268-72.
Summary
Asking Shaw to "send me down a £1 note by the bearer -- in a Note."
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