Manuscripts

Hyde, Edward, afterwards 3d Earl of Clarendon. To William Blathwayt. Hammersmith

Description: Signature "Cornbury" cut away.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1701, Aug. 5),
Call number: BL 172
Creator: Blathwayt, William (1649?-1717)(Opens in new tab)
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.
Associated people: Nicolls, Richard, (1624-1672,)
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