BIB_ID
81387
Accession number
MA 9322
Creator
Catesby, Robert, 1573-1605.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased, 1950.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 30.6 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Address panel: "To his Louinge cosin / Mr John Grant / at Narbrooke / geue thes."
The words "Robert Catesby to John Grant" appear on the verso in what appears to be a contemporary hand.
Later notes in pencil about the rarity of the item and the dating appear below Catesby's letter, on the recto.
Formerly accessioned as MA 1346-70.
Additional information available in the Collection File.
Grant was recruited into the Gunpowder Plot in March 1605, suggesting that this letter may have been written sometime in the spring, summer or fall of 1605. However, there is no information on the item allowing for confirmation of this supposition.
Watermark: Pot with letters "CM" inside. Watermark, beta radiograph. pot on pedestal, CM. 81387wm_MA9322_WM_beta.jpg
The words "Robert Catesby to John Grant" appear on the verso in what appears to be a contemporary hand.
Later notes in pencil about the rarity of the item and the dating appear below Catesby's letter, on the recto.
Formerly accessioned as MA 1346-70.
Additional information available in the Collection File.
Grant was recruited into the Gunpowder Plot in March 1605, suggesting that this letter may have been written sometime in the spring, summer or fall of 1605. However, there is no information on the item allowing for confirmation of this supposition.
Watermark: Pot with letters "CM" inside. Watermark, beta radiograph. pot on pedestal, CM. 81387wm_MA9322_WM_beta.jpg
Provenance
Purchased from The Rosenbach Company, 1950; from the Fairfax Murray Collection of European Autographs, formerly owned by Alfred Morrison and sold at auction by Sotheby's, London on December 11, 1917, lot 174.
Summary
Asking Grant if "the monye" can be made available by certain specified dates ("Sainte Thomas Daye before Christemas") in advance of their meeting in London.
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