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Manuscripts
Cowse, James. The Case of James Cowse Esq. and Elizabeth, his wife
- Description
2 pieces.
- Date
- [1700/01, March & 1701, Apr. 10], ).
- Call number
- BL 405
- 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.
