BIB_ID
105720
Accession number
MA 455.2
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1732 [i.e. 1733] Jan. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 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. 2. concerning the Verses I sent to him on his Birthday with a paper book."
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. 2. concerning the Verses I sent to him on his Birthday with a paper book."
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 715); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for sending some verses the Earl of Orrery wrote on the occasion of Swift's birthday.
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