BIB_ID
80356
Accession number
MA 3639
Creator
Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749.
Display Date
1744 May 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Cary Fund, 1979.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.5 x 16.3 cm
Notes
Addressed, with remnants of a seal, to: "Daniel McKercher Esqr. / at his House at / Mill Bank." Boyse also gives the place of writing as "Mill Bank." Millbank is an area in central London, in the City of Westminster, where MacKercher is known to have lived.
Docketed.
With a note in an unknown hand, near the docketing: "Printed in the / European Magazine / for July 1788."
An introductory paragraph in the July 1788 issue of the European Magazine identifies the recipient of the letter as Daniel MacKercher (1702-1772), a Scottish solicitor involved in the Annesley Case.
Docketed.
With a note in an unknown hand, near the docketing: "Printed in the / European Magazine / for July 1788."
An introductory paragraph in the July 1788 issue of the European Magazine identifies the recipient of the letter as Daniel MacKercher (1702-1772), a Scottish solicitor involved in the Annesley Case.
Provenance
Acquired from the London dealer Quaritch. Purchased on the Cary Fund, 1979.
Summary
Thanking MacKercher for his letter and "the Goodness you are pleased to intend me"; telling him that it will "enable me to embrace the offer of Business made me, which I shall close with this Day"; writing that he will wait on him on Wednesday evening; sending his respects to James Annesley.
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