BIB_ID
361793
Accession number
MA 3260.26
Creator
King, Rufus, 1755-1827.
Display Date
[1817].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Frederic G. King / University of Cambridge / Mass."
Docketed; date is from docket.
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: Fellows 1814.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed; date is from docket.
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: Fellows 1814.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Giving his approval of Frederic's plan to "to send [him] once a week an exercise in the translation of Latin into English or vice versa"; mentioning Frederic's fencing lessons; recommending that he do without his spectacles "whenever [he] can"; commenting on his son Edward's gradual return to health and Frederic's mother's health [Mary Alsop King]; noting that Congress "is beginning its work, but hitherto, nothing has taken place of interest."
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