BIB_ID
81243
Accession number
MA 8847
Creator
Bacon, Nicholas, approximately 1543-1624.
Display Date
1591 Feb. 6.
Credit line
Purchased, 1950.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 30.6 x 20.6 cm
Notes
Address panel addressed to his loving brother Nathaniel.
The nature of the business concerned, other than a reference to "what ther pleasure is to be done upon the Cost of Norfolk" is not specified.
The nature of the business concerned, other than a reference to "what ther pleasure is to be done upon the Cost of Norfolk" is not specified.
Provenance
Purchased in 1950 from The Rosenbach Company and from the Fairfax Murray Collection of European Autographs.
Summary
Forwarding a letter from "my Lords of the Councell" and requesting Nathaniel's aid in carrying out the instructions contained in it; adding in an autograph postscript, signed with his initials, the suggestion that he should take an inventory of the items delivered and iterating that he is sending him the "Counsells letter itself and not the copye and therefore I praye you have greate care of the safe keapynge" of "sutche goodes."
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