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Tobacco or codfish : Lord Baltimore makes his choice

Title: Tobacco or codfish : Lord Baltimore makes his choice / by Lawrence C. Wroth.
Author: Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632.
Publication: New York : The New York Public Library, 1954.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents 97-645	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents 97-645	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Description

15 p., [9] p. of plates : map, facsims.; 26cm.

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Note

Facsimile, transcription and annotation of a letter written by Lord Baltimore from Ferryland, Avalon, Nfld., on August 18, 1629 to an unidentified addressee, assumed to have been Sir Francis Cottington. The letter is now in the Arents Tobacco Collection of the New York Public Library (Arents 94-294).
"Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, December 1954"--T.p. verso.
Lord Baltimore informs his correspondent of his intention to go to Virginia, where "I ... may yet do the King and my country more service ... by planting of tobacco"--P. 7; p. [2] of facsim.

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Call Number

F-10 388 c.2

LCCN

55002994

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Author

Baltimore, George Calvert, Baron, 1580?-1632.

Title

Tobacco or codfish : Lord Baltimore makes his choice / by Lawrence C. Wroth.

Imprint

New York : The New York Public Library, 1954.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 15.

Added Author

Cottington, Francis Cottington, Baron, 1578?-1652.

Wroth, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Counselman), 1884-1970.

Arents Tobacco Collection.

Research Call Number

F-10 388 c.2

F-10 677

Arents 97-645 Additional copies in HAE p.v. 571 and *HND (NYPL); cf. Old Cat.