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Letter signed : Rome, to an unidentified recipient, 1717 December 22.

BIB_ID
400401
Accession number
MA 2691.403
Creator
Vallemani, Giuseppe, 1648-1725.
Display Date
1717 December 22.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.5 x 19 cm
Notes
Docketed in ink on verso.
Addressed to a count.
Address panel has been removed.
Watermark: star, with a circle in the middle with initial D, inscribed in a circle, with a cross on top, with intial F at bottom (similiar to Briquet 6089).
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Summary
Saying to his recipient that upon the arrival of the carter he received the small box of oysters in good condition which he so kindly sent him, and that he turned them over to the Pope (Nro Sig.re) to be served on the Cardinals' table on Christmas Eve; saying that he talked yesterday morning to Cardinal Parraciani regarding the desired permission to have his daughter educated at the Convent of the Carmelites.