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.
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.
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