BIB_ID
300477
Accession number
MA 231.25
Creator
Locke, John, 1632-1704.
Display Date
1700 Aug. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.7 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
Answering questions from Lyde's last letter about his tenants' debts; acknowledging that he does not know how to make Hanny pay his debts; saying that he doubts Joseph Barnes' story that he was given a 20s abatement in his rent but leaves the matter to Lyde's judgment; discussing a tenant named William Gullock.
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