BIB_ID
375123
Accession number
MA 554.55
Creator
Ross, George, 1730-1779.
Display Date
1765 June 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1892.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Mrs. Gertrude Read / New Castle / favour of / Mr. James Read."
Gertrude Read was the sister of George Ross and the wife of George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Delaware.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
The place is writing is not indicated however George Ross was a lawyer in private practice in Lancaster, PA at this time.
Gertrude Read was the sister of George Ross and the wife of George Read, a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Delaware.
Part of a collection of autograph letters by the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; see collection-level record for MA 554.1-60 for more information.
The place is writing is not indicated however George Ross was a lawyer in private practice in Lancaster, PA at this time.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. in 1892.
Summary
Expressing his happiness at receiving her letter "and assure you it will ever make me happy to hear you are so[.] I am convinc'd you believe me when I tell you that you are dearer to me than all my other Brothers & Sisters[.] your disposition & Temper is & has justly occasioned me to give you this preferrence [sic] and if my writing frequently to you will be a means to induce you to put pen to paper I will endeavour to give you employ - I am now busie in the Orphans Court & Expect Mr. Read will dine with me today[.]
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