DeWitt Clinton A.D., [New York, 1817]
1817
MSS L1988.203.13 M MB
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Title
DeWitt Clinton A.D., [New York, 1817]
Published
[New York] [1817]
Description
[1] leaf ; 25 cm.
Call Number
MSS L1988.203.13 M MB
Note
Pencilled note at upper margin: "autograph DeWitt Clinton / Before the Society of the Cincinnati.
Pencilled notes on verso: The within is the hand-writing of DeWitt Clinton [and] "1817 / Mr. Clinton's / address from this / part of the Society.
A comparison of other manuscripts in the collection apparently affirm the attribution to DeWitt Clinton; the attribution to the occasion, however, is suspect despite the description in the Sotheby's auction catalogue for sale 5759, October 26, 1988 -- see case file. Though Clinton had been a member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati since 1813, he held no office in 1817, and that Society elected no honorary members in that year. Moreover, Monroe was already an original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati.
An on-line Catalogue of the papers of James Monroe includes a June 1817 letter from Clinton, who was a founder and President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, to Monroe notifying him of his election to that society. It is possible that the present manuscript is a draft of that letter, or it may be that of a speech as the Sotheby catalogue suggests.
Watermark: C Wilmott 1813
Pencilled notes on verso: The within is the hand-writing of DeWitt Clinton [and] "1817 / Mr. Clinton's / address from this / part of the Society.
A comparison of other manuscripts in the collection apparently affirm the attribution to DeWitt Clinton; the attribution to the occasion, however, is suspect despite the description in the Sotheby's auction catalogue for sale 5759, October 26, 1988 -- see case file. Though Clinton had been a member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati since 1813, he held no office in 1817, and that Society elected no honorary members in that year. Moreover, Monroe was already an original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati.
An on-line Catalogue of the papers of James Monroe includes a June 1817 letter from Clinton, who was a founder and President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York, to Monroe notifying him of his election to that society. It is possible that the present manuscript is a draft of that letter, or it may be that of a speech as the Sotheby catalogue suggests.
Watermark: C Wilmott 1813
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