BIB_ID
300405
Accession number
MA 231.15
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
1696 Dec. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.4 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 postmark and seal.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Expressing surprise that his neighbor Francis Carpenter "should goe about to buy my estate over my head ... This I thinke is noe where accounted fair dealeing" [sic]; discussing his plans for the estate.
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