Manuscripts
Byrd, William. To William Lowndes. Portsmouth[England]
- Description
Enclosed in : 1705, May 22 Lowndes to Blathwayt
- Date
- 1705, May 9),
- Call number
- BL 96
- Additional description
- The collection includes 27 unofficial letters addressed to Richard Nicolls, first English governor of the colony of New York.
- Provenance
- Purchased from A. S. W. Rosenbach, July 1924. After Blathwayt's death, the papers were in possession of Edward Southwell, his son-in-law. Then they were purchased by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872) and were known Phillipps Mss. No. 8558. The papers were offered for sale in 1908, and changed hands at least once more, through the agency of Sotheby's.
