BIB_ID
104819
Accession number
MA 455.1
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1732 [i.e. 1733] Mar. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Dated 1732, but Swift is using an Old Style date; the year is 1733.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 1. In answer to a letter recd from me."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 1. In answer to a letter recd from me."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 714); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Commenting on England's new excise on tobacco; noting that "a Rascal from England" reprinted a pamphlet at great expense to "pave the way for the same proceeding" in Ireland, but hoping that "our Members will think they are slaves enough already"; reporting that he "sent [Alexander Pope's] Epitaph on Mr. [John] Gay to Mrs. B[arber] to be copyd"; commenting on Pope's "imitation of Horace" and his "Poem to Lord Bathurst"; mentioning John Gay's sequel to The Beggar's Opera; speaking critically of sequels: "I have been told that few Painters can copy their own originals to perfection, and I believe the first thoughts on a Subject, that occurrs to a Poets imagination are usually the most natural"; discussing a satirical imitation of Pope published under the name Alexander Burnet; reporting that he was successful in obtaining admisstion to the Blue-Coat Hospital [The King's Hospital, Dublin?] for Lord Orrery's servant's boy.
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