BIB_ID
295412
Accession number
MA 3387.1
Display Date
1695 Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund; gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1971.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 29.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of manuscript notes in shorthand by Samuel Pepys and transcriptions of the notes by an amanuensis. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 3387.1-4).
Provenance
K. Marr Johnson, his sale (Sotheby's, Nov. 29, 1971, lot 148-9).
Summary
A transcription of the shorthand notes Pepys made on his visit to a Miss Dawson to obtain her "full & imparsiall knowledge" about the birth of the Prince of Wales [James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender].
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