BIB_ID
361722
Accession number
MA 3260.5
Creator
King, Rufus, 1755-1827.
Display Date
1816 Jan. 21.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Master Frederic King / Jamaica L. I."
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Rufus and Mary King to their son Frederic Gore King. Letters are described in individual records; please see collection record for MA 3260 for more details.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Rufus and Mary King to their son Frederic Gore King. Letters are described in individual records; please see collection record for MA 3260 for more details.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Commenting on the deaths of Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Jones, and "young Jones"; expressing his pleasure at Frederic's standing his Latin class, but telling him to "be more studious in order to advance in [his] Greek class"; requesting more information about his son's weekly place in his class; asking him to check on the progress of their new stable; promising to send him "some of our papers."
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