BIB_ID
300488
Accession number
MA 1063.66
Creator
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830.
Display Date
[1827] Dec. 17.
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1928.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence to the Irish politician and writer J. W. Croker. Letters have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 1063 for more information.
Written from Russell Square.
Year from penciled notation on p. 1.
Written from Russell Square.
Year from penciled notation on p. 1.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co in 1928; gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1928.
Summary
Thanking him for a prompt answer "which you had full right to withhold, but which I expected from you." Also thanking him for an increase in the amount of his nephew's income, noting that "though the appointment may have been the act of another, the whole originated in your kindness."
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