BIB_ID
105806
Accession number
MA 417.8
Creator
Hall-Stevenson, John, 1718-1785.
Display Date
1766 July 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Hall-Stevenson referred to his home at Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, as Crazy Castle.
Part of a collection of letters from Laurence Sterne. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from Laurence Sterne. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Expressing his contrition over his "bestiality with the Bishop of G--" [William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester] and asking for Sterne's help in the controversy over the poems in question.
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