BIB_ID
300401
Accession number
MA 231.13
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
1696 Apr. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
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 seal.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Discussing the new law "about the regulateing [sic] of money"; noting the penalties for not following the new law; underscoring the need to eliminate the use of "clipt money"; telling Lyde that he may allow tenants to pay late if they are "honest and responsible men and doe [sic] not delay paying upon pretences only to delay"; saying that he does not understand what his cousin Mary Dolman expects him to do for her son; offering to help Lyde's son in Holland.
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