BIB_ID
361774
Accession number
MA 3260.18
Creator
King, Rufus, 1755-1827.
Display Date
1817 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
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.
Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1814.
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.
Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1814.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Wishing he had his son in Washington so they could read Cicero together; noting that "everybody here has been busy ... in collecting ice for the summer"; hoping that they have been collecting ice in Jamaica as well; asking him to check on how the "pork barrels," apples, and pears are keeping; also asking about whether they have calves yet, and how "the cows hold out with milk"; telling him to make sure "the Trotter" doesn't "eat off the boughs of the row of Cherry-Trees in the Church field," as "he is a great offender in this particular"; requesting that he "take good care of [his] mother."
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