Record ID:
300479
Accession number:
MA 231.26
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes:
Docketed; includes information about when tenants have promised to pay their debts.
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:
Sending him "an account of arears of rent that were due to me at our Lady day last" and a "warrant for distraining on Mary Cooke if she has not paid you before it comes to your hands"; complaining about other tenants; noting that he is sending Mrs. Lyde "a piece of plate"; asking Lyde to distribute 20 shillings of bread to the poor of Pensford every Christmas.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
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