BIB_ID
399792
Accession number
MA 8739.9
Creator
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.
Display Date
1907 [July 13].
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.9 x 24.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of telegrams and letters from J. Pierpont Morgan to Dr. William W. Baldwin between 1904 and 1910 (MA 8739.1-14). This collection is part of a much larger collection of letters to Dr. Baldwin from authors, English royalty and other luminaries of the period including Henry James, Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Cabot Lodge, Booth Tarkington, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson. See MA 3564 for more information on the complete Baldwin collection.
The month and day of the telegram from postmark.
The telegram is directed to Dr. Baldwin at "25 Via Gregorino, Roma."
The month and day of the telegram from postmark.
The telegram is directed to Dr. Baldwin at "25 Via Gregorino, Roma."
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane and Mrs. Stanley B. Hawks, 1968.
Summary
Inviting him to come to Venice; saying "If perfectly convenient and you can arrange it quietly without notice you might run down here to Venice and spend a day or two on the yacht I will talk with you about the British and American Hospital Also I will be glad to see you before I go home. J. Pierpont Morgan."
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