BIB_ID
80529
Accession number
MA 157.24
Creator
Armstrong, John, 1758-1843.
Display Date
1814 Feb. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Dr. David Townsend / Boston."
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Place of writing from postmark; written from the War Department.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed of Elbridge Gerry and others relating to the French Commission and the XYZ Affair. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Place of writing from postmark; written from the War Department.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from J.F. Sabin in 1907.
Summary
Saying he will do everything in his power to assist his son; adding that he "thought it best that my answer should not pass through any of the semi-official strainers who surround the Department & even pretend to influence their movements."
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