BIB_ID
157413
Accession number
MA 554.1
Creator
Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
Display Date
1777 Mar. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Mrs. Hancock / Baltimore;" free frank.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Informing her that he had arrived safely despite the bad roads, that he met Governor Johnston "who is just come from the Gen'l. things look well & I Judge we shall remain at Philad'a. if I find it so on my Arrival there, you may Depend I shall immediately Send for you; Do as you Judge best with respect to Inoculating the Child, if there should be a prospect of your Soon Coming it would be best to keep it off, but it is impossible to foresee events, I must leave it with you;" asking her to send a gift of linen to Mrs. Grant as a present from him for her "Civilities;" suggesting to her that she ask Mrs. Hillegas to "have her husband's picture Taken on Horseback, I assure her he Cuts a most Capital figure;" relating what he had for dinner and adding, in a postscript, "The Turkey was so tough that I broke out one of my Teeth."
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