Autograph letter signed : Oates [near Harlow, Essex], to Cornelius Lyde, 1697 Mar. 3.

Record ID: 
300418
Accession number: 
MA 231.17
Author: 
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.7 cm
Notes: 

With 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).

Summary: 

Thanking him for paying 20s to his cousin Mary Doleman; mentioning a note from his cousin Stratton; saying that some of his tenants paid their rent to the Strattons without his knowledge; discussing Lyde's recent appointment to be "one of the Commissioners for the raiseing the cappitation tax" [sic].

Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.