BIB_ID
80505
Accession number
MA 838.5
Creator
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836.
Display Date
[1797] Aug. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel to "James Monroe Esq're / Philadelphia."
Docketed on address panel.
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.
The year of writing is from the docket; place of writing from the citation for this letter in The Comprehensive Catalogue of the Correspondence and Papers of James Monroe, Volume 1.
Docketed on address panel.
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.
The year of writing is from the docket; place of writing from the citation for this letter in The Comprehensive Catalogue of the Correspondence and Papers of James Monroe, Volume 1.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J. Pearson & Company, 1912.
Summary
Saying he was "taken ill yesterday afternoon & am now confined to bed;" adding that he "can neither speak or write about it today -- tomorrow no doubt I shall be better."
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