Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "p841b6763",
    "label": "Letter from Mary Thacher to her brother Peter Thacher, Middleborough, 1741/1742 March 9 ; Letter from Peter Thacher to Nathan Prince, 1740 May 9",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:p841b6763"
}

{
    "id": "p841b6763",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:p841b6763",
    "contentType": "document",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Letter from Mary Thacher to her brother Peter Thacher, Middleborough, 1741/1742 March 9 ; Letter from Peter Thacher to Nathan Prince, 1740 May 9",
    "description": "[Letter from Mary Thacher, written horizontally] Speaking of the long time since she has heard from him, stating that news of his success in preaching has reached her, that they are \"in a little kind of fluster,\" as Mr. Tennant is entering the town, and \"yr is scarse any hay in town w ever yr is of provision other ways,\" / [Letter from Peter Thacher, written vertically] Bewailing the depressing state of spiritual affairs, mentioning that twenty-eight out of fifty-two male brethren of his church have withdrawn from him and are petitioning for a new township, etc",
    "date": "[\"August 9, 1740–March 9, 1742\"]",
    "year": 1740,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:p841b6763",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "19_03_1507_01_031",
    "creators": [
        "Thacher, Mary, active 18th century",
        "Thacher, Peter, 1688-1744",
        "Thacher, Peter, 1688-1744",
        "Prince, Nathan, 1698-1748",
        "Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)",
        "Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Thomas Prince Library and Collection of the Old South Church",
        "Cotton and Prince Papers"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775",
        "Puritans",
        "Cotton family",
        "Prince family"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Correspondence",
        "Manuscripts"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
        "Text"
    ],
    "country": "United States",
    "state": "Massachusetts",
    "iiifBase": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Ap841b677c",
    "iiifManifest": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p841b6763/manifest",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/images/commonwealth:p841b677c/image_thumbnail_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Ap841b677c/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "extent": "1 item (4 pages) ; 19 x 31 cm",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/p841b6763",
    "institutionArkId": "sf268508b",
    "collectionArkId": "p841b547f",
    "schema:latitude": 42.25,
    "schema:longitude": -71.8333,
    "notes": [
        "Description of contents copied from Boston Public Library Prince Collection catalog."
    ],
    "dcId": "p841b6763",
    "type": "document"
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Ap841b677c/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "mediaId": "766e4e1b23db521a"
}