BIB_ID
300377
Accession number
MA 231.3
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
[1697] Aug. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Locke has transposed the numbers in the year ("79"); correct year is from E.S. de Beer's edition of Locke's correspondence (v. 6).
Part of a collection of 24 autograph letters signed, a letter signed, and an autograph document. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 231.1-26).
With postmark and seal.
Part of a collection of 24 autograph letters signed, a letter signed, and an autograph document. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 231.1-26).
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Discussing accounts and a debt Lyde is trying to collect from "Hanny"; telling him he will be "glad to welcome [Lyde's] son" and give him assistance "in his seting (sic) out or anything else I can be serviceable to him in in the practise of physick"; saying that he would like to have an opportunity to repay Lyde for the "favour" of "lookeing (sic) after [Locke's] little affairs."
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