BIB_ID
366472
Accession number
MA 157.100
Creator
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838.
Display Date
[1798 July 15].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Date of writing is given as "7 Messidor an 6" but there is a note beneath the date, in the hand of the copyist, "should be 27 Mess'r."
Endorsed on verso; indicating this is Letter No. 43; the endorsement gives the date as "27 Messidor rec'd with his letter of 15th July."
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.
Endorsed on verso; indicating this is Letter No. 43; the endorsement gives the date as "27 Messidor rec'd with his letter of 15th July."
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Informing him that he has received the necessary permission from the Maritime Minister for his departure on the Sophia.
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