BIB_ID
300978
Accession number
MA 3200.3
Creator
Altham, Emmanuel, 1600-1635 or 1636.
Display Date
1625 June 10.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1978.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.5 cm
Notes
Docketed "1625 / New England."
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
Part of a collection of nine letters from Emmanuel Altham to his brother Sir Edward Altham and two related documents; items in the collection have been described separately in eleven catalog records (MA 3200.1-11); see related records for more information.
Provenance
From the Oliver R. Barrett collection; his sale (New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1 November 1950, lot 928); P.D. Sang; sale April 26, 1978, lot 241.
Summary
Reflecting on the disaffection in the London Company aforeseeinging the failure of the plantation at Pautext [i.e., Plymouth]. Discussing the investments in his voyage and planning his voyage for the next year, resolving to "adventure this ways again, but never to have any other but myself to be the chief manager of it." Mentioning other financial matters and asking him to send some goods to New England for trading with the Native Americans. With a post script sending a tobacco pipe, "being the first and rarest that I ever saw," and noting that "it became a king's pipe in this country."
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