BIB_ID
361815
Accession number
MA 3260.36
Creator
King, Rufus, 1755-1827.
Display Date
1818 Apr. 5.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Frederic King / Harvard-University / Cambridge / Ms."
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: M & K N. York and two kissing birds.
With postmark and trace of a seal; place of writing is from postmark.
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: M & K N. York and two kissing birds.
With postmark and trace of a seal; place of writing is from postmark.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Describing the signs of spring in Washington, D.C.; telling him that Congress is adjourning on the 20th and he hopes to be home by May 1; saying he wants to "ascertain whether [Frederic has] become more upright"; discussing Frederic's "progress as a scholar," and hoping he will be "a man not only of good parts, but also of great acquirements"; commenting on the health of Frederic's mother [Mary Alsop King] and brother [Edward King].
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