BIB_ID
283547
Accession number
MA 553.70
Creator
Lynch, Thomas, 1749-1779.
Display Date
1766 Nov.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; various sizes from 6.3 x 10 to 19.5 x 16.2
Notes
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With 2 letters of attestation from S.P. Hamilton to Colonel C.C. Jones of Augusta, Georgia; a letter from William Drayton to W.W. Godfrey suggesting family members to contact for an autograph of Thomas Lynch, Jr.; a letter from Thomas Addis Emmet to Colonel C.C. Jones concerning his acquisition of a Lynch autograph; a facsimile of a letter in the position of Thomas Addis Emmet in 1889 with a penciled notation below the attribution saying "now at N.Y. Public Library 1912" and a photograph of a Lynch signature dated 1770.
With 2 letters of attestation from S.P. Hamilton to Colonel C.C. Jones of Augusta, Georgia; a letter from William Drayton to W.W. Godfrey suggesting family members to contact for an autograph of Thomas Lynch, Jr.; a letter from Thomas Addis Emmet to Colonel C.C. Jones concerning his acquisition of a Lynch autograph; a facsimile of a letter in the position of Thomas Addis Emmet in 1889 with a penciled notation below the attribution saying "now at N.Y. Public Library 1912" and a photograph of a Lynch signature dated 1770.
Summary
Being four signatures, all simply signed as "Lynch"; a signature dated November 1766 above an autograph title, "Play Exercise Book"; a single autograph text in Latin with his signature, "Lynch", in the upper left corner of the page, with a penciled notation beneath it "written while at Eton at about 14 years of age"; a very faint signature, "Lynch, jun" in the upper right corner of the title page of a book titled "The Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth", volume 1, by N. Hooke, with a publication date of 1766; a signature at the top of the title page of "The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift," Volume VI, with the bookplate of "J. Hamilton."
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