BIB_ID
361920
Accession number
MA 3260.54
Creator
Gore, Christopher, 1758-1827.
Display Date
1822 Aug. 6.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1978.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rufus King / Jamaica, Long Island / New York."
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.
Part of the address panel has been cut away.
Watermark: Fellows 1818.
With postmark and 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.
Part of the address panel has been cut away.
Watermark: Fellows 1818.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Gertrude W. Dennis.
Summary
Describing an illness that he thought was going to kill him; discussing the payment of Frederic King's remaining college bills [Gore acted as Frederic's guardian while he was at Harvard].
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