Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Leicester, to Mr. Carpenter, "Wednesday morning" [1812].

BIB_ID
311490
Accession number
MA 429.26
Creator
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Display Date
"Wednesday morning" [1812].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
Address with postmarks and evidence of a seal.
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Regretting that he did not receive the supplies from Carpenter before he left home the previous day and noting "I write this as a kind of stimulus;" regretting to hear that Carpenter is so ill and instructing him to take care of himself.
Year of writing from postmarks.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.