BIB_ID
300981
Accession number
MA 3200.6
Creator
Altham, Emmanuel, 1600-1635 or 1636.
Display Date
1627 Dec. 31.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1978.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 30.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "To ye Right woor and my lovinge brother Sir Edward Altam, dwellinge at Marke hall in Essex. Pray deliver this at one Mr. Watsons house a gunsmith at ye signe of ye pie in the minneres without Algate, to be sent as above."
Docketed "Decr 31 1627 / Surat."
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.
Docketed "Decr 31 1627 / Surat."
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
Reporting that he has arrived in India "after a long and tedious voyage." Noting that many on the voyage died, and that he was sick and is not yet fully recovered.
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