BIB_ID
355363
Accession number
MA 701.35
Creator
Holmes, Richard R. (Richard Rivington), 1835-1911.
Display Date
1897 Dec. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Counterblast was written in 1604 by King James I of England and is one of the earliest anti-tobacco treatises.
Part of a collection of letters from Richard Holmes to Pearson & Company. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on mourning paper.
Part of a collection of letters from Richard Holmes to Pearson & Company. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Thanking them for sending the "Counterblast" and saying he will keep it.
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