BIB_ID
372268
Accession number
MA 693.20
Display Date
[1796 Mar. 7].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 14.7 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Beauchamp -- Gazetteer / Number 10 Ave Maria Lane, / Ludgate Street / Post paid -- Monday 7 March / P.M. 1/4 before 5."
In an unknown contemporary hand.
Part of a collection of letters related to Edmund Burke; see main record for MA 693 for more information.
With London Penny Post postmarks; date is from statement of payment on March 7 and a postmark that reads "8 MR 96."
In an unknown contemporary hand.
Part of a collection of letters related to Edmund Burke; see main record for MA 693 for more information.
With London Penny Post postmarks; date is from statement of payment on March 7 and a postmark that reads "8 MR 96."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910.
Summary
Giving the terms of Edmund Burke's pension and asking Beauchamp to publish them: "That Mr. Burke may not be, either erroneously or invidiously described as receiving more from the royal bounty than he actually does, it cannot prove improper to insert the following statement."
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