Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Invitation : Paris, to "Monsieur Gery", [1798 May 26].

BIB_ID
366403
Accession number
MA 157.87
Creator
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
Display Date
[1798 May 26].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 17.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with the stamp of the Foreign Minister's office and traces of a seal to "Monsieur Gery envoyé Extraordinaire / des Etats unis l'amerique / Rue de Vaugirard Pres celle Pot de fer / Maison de la Jeune Vilette."
Date of writing is "le 7 du mois Prairial - an 6."
Endorsed on address panel.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Printed invitation with manuscript additions.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Inviting him to dine at his house.