BIB_ID
294996
Accession number
MA 739.16
Display Date
[ca. 1789 Jan. 2].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 37.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 18 letters, bills, and documents of the English historian Edward Gibbon. Items are cataloged individually in 18 records (MA 739.1-18); see collection record for more information.
The sixth of 6 bills endorsed signed by Gibbon on 2 January 1789.
The sixth of 6 bills endorsed signed by Gibbon on 2 January 1789.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1911.
Summary
Manuscript bill for £90.9, issued to the English historian Edward Gibbon for services rendered in 1788. Endorsed, signed and dated by Gibbon, and with an autograph note signed by the creditor acknowledging of receipt of payment on 6 January 1789.
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