BIB_ID
210946
Accession number
MA 76.1-7
Display Date
[ca. 1803 Oct. 23].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1898.
Description
1 v. (7 items), bound ; 25.9 cm
Provenance
From the Ford Collection. Gordon Lester Ford; by descent to his sons Worthington Chauncey Ford and Paul Leicester Ford; purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1898.
Summary
Collection consists of a letter from Jonathan Dayton to DeWitt Clinton, an autograph statement by DeWitt Clinton concerning their altercation, supporting statements from Samuel Smith and Robert Wright, clipped signatures, and a letter from John McAllister to Paul Leicester Ford, presenting a modern impression of a copperplate "Congressional pugilists." The letter, statements and signatures are described separately in see individual catalog records. With three engraved portraits.
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