Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph notebook signed : Washington, D.C. and Rhode Island, 1818-1823.

BIB_ID
198186
Accession number
MA 995.111
Creator
Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848.
Display Date
1818-1823.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (48 p.), bound ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of bound notebooks containing some of the papers of Henry Wheaton; notebooks are described in individual records (MA 995.108-138). This collection of notebooks is part of a large archival collection of Wheaton's papers; see MA 995 for details.
Signed on the front free endpaper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Imbert, 1912.
Summary
Notebook includes an essay on eloquence; autobiographical notes and journal entries from 1818 and 1820, including an account of his daughter's death; legal notes; notes from his reading and for "Some account of the life ... of William Pinkney" (published New York, 1826); a copy of a letter from B. Livingston to J.C. Yates, 1823 Jan. 16, recommending Henry Wheaton; and a desiderata at the end of the volume.