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Autograph notebook, [1815-1819?].

BIB_ID
198193
Accession number
MA 995.118
Creator
Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848.
Display Date
[1815-1819?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (133 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.
The notebook is not dated, however many of the notes on cases and legal issues relate to ships and cargo; Wheaton served on the Maritime Court from 1815-1819; the clippings bound with the notes are dated 1817.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Imbert, 1912.
Summary
Being legal notes on cases that relate to vessels and cargo including notes on "O. Wilson et al. vs. Frances [sic] & Cargo."