BIB_ID
384083
Accession number
MA 1262.40
Creator
Downe, John Christopher Burton Dawnay, Viscount, 1764-1832.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1797?] Sept. 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
The year of writing is not given however September 7th does fall on a Thursday in 1797, the year of writing of the letter previous to this in the collection and written from Ashford (MA 1262.39).
Volume 5 (MA 1262) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1262.1-75).
The year of writing is not given however September 7th does fall on a Thursday in 1797, the year of writing of the letter previous to this in the collection and written from Ashford (MA 1262.39).
Volume 5 (MA 1262) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family and distinguished contemporaries. (MA 487, MA 297 and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information (MA 1262.1-75).
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Informing him that he has an inflammation in his eyes and the doctor has confined him to the house; asking that he excuse him from Ashford for several days.
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