BIB_ID
300460
Accession number
MA 231.23
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
1698 Apr. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 15.9 cm
Notes
Docketed: "Lock [sic] to know what money I can supply him with. Rc'ed 2nd of May 1698. Answ'd 3rd."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Telling him that Sir Francis Masham has asked to borrow £100; inquiring whether Clarke can lend him £100 so he can give it to Masham; asking him "not [to] mention Sir Francis's borrowing of this money, to any body" [sic]; hoping that his wife "has received benefit by Dr. [Robert] Pitt's prescriptions."
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