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Manuscripts
Blathwayt, William. Lord Culpeper, Governor of Virginia : [accounts for salary, House Rent &ca.]
- Description
2 pieces.
- Date
- [c. 1683]).
- Call number
- BL 105
- 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.
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