BIB_ID
80425
Accession number
MA 838.6
Creator
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
Display Date
1798 May 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Pierpont Edwards Esquire / (to be left in the Post Office till called for) / New Haven."
Part of a collection of letters written by Aaron Burr. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Pierpont Edwards was a member of the Continental Congress and later a United States federal judge.
The address panel was originally written to New York but New York is crossed through and New Haven written above it.
Part of a collection of letters written by Aaron Burr. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for more information.
Pierpont Edwards was a member of the Continental Congress and later a United States federal judge.
The address panel was originally written to New York but New York is crossed through and New Haven written above it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1912.
Summary
Assuring him of his "aid in the matter;" inviting him to stay with him in New York at 55 William "where I have a bed for you & bachelors fare, with the certain advantage of freedom from restraint[?] -- My daughter is with Mrs. Allen"
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