Record ID:
300423
Accession number:
MA 231.18
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description:
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 20.6 cm
Notes:
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).
Summary:
Mentioning a new tax and observing that "notheing [makes] the taxes come with more unwillingnesse and discontent from the people than when they see others doe not bear an equall share in the burthen with them" [sic]; discussing the currency problems; saying that the "businesse of the lease to Francis Carpenter" must wait until he goes to London": "I doe not use to set my hand and seale till I have advised with those who are better skild in those matters than I, by which menas I have all my life avoided suits and controversies" [sic].
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
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