BIB_ID
300428
Accession number
MA 231.19
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
1697 Aug. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.6 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).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Sending him a draft of the lease for Francis Carpenter with some changes; discussing the terms of the lease; noting that "we are now god be thanked like to have peace again and then tade will again flourish, and with the flourishing of trade rents will rise again" [sic]; hoping he has received all the "Lady day rents" and asking Lyde to send him the accounts for his estate.
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