BIB_ID
364909
Accession number
MA 90.3
Creator
Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Display Date
1646 Oct. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p.), unbound ; 33.0 cm
Notes
A penciled notation with the letter indicates the letter was "Taken from the extra illustrated edition of Clarendon's Rebellion."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Oliver Cromwell. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
There is a note written under the signature in the left margin as follows: "Mem. This Lett'r I had from my Mother Limington who had it from old Mrs. Warner who had liv'd with Oliver Cromwell's daughter. / Mem 2'd. This aut. was given (I suppose) by one of Mrs. Warner's family of S--y from whom I had the original in Sept. 1751, E.J."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Oliver Cromwell. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
There is a note written under the signature in the left margin as follows: "Mem. This Lett'r I had from my Mother Limington who had it from old Mrs. Warner who had liv'd with Oliver Cromwell's daughter. / Mem 2'd. This aut. was given (I suppose) by one of Mrs. Warner's family of S--y from whom I had the original in Sept. 1751, E.J."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F.T. Sabin in 1905.
Summary
Expressing his concern for her "Sister [Elizabeth] Claypole;' saying "shee sees her own vanity and carnal minde: bewailing itt: she seeks after (as I hope alsoe) that w'ch will satisfie. and thus to bee a seeker is to bee of the best sect next [to a] finder; and such an one shall every faythfull, humble seeker bee to the end. Happie seeker, happie finder!;" encouraging her to "press on, lett not husband, lett not any things cool thy affections after christ, I hope Hee wil be an occasion to inflame them;" sending his affection to the "generall and generalesse. I hear shee is very kind to thee, it adds to all other obligations."
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