BIB_ID
106504
Accession number
MA 563.4a
Creator
Ford, Charles, 1682-1743.
Display Date
1726 Mar. 13.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.3 x 15 cm
Notes
Only this draft of the letter survives.
The signed initials "J:S" are apparently in Swift's hand.
High reserve.
The signed initials "J:S" are apparently in Swift's hand.
High reserve.
Provenance
From the papers of Charles Ford; sold at Christie's, 4 June 1896; sold at Sotheby's, 7 May 1900, lot 231 as an autograph letter by Swift.
Summary
Sending a poem ("In Stellae Natalem") in Latin on her birthday, written on the verso, along with a title and four lines of a poem that have been crossed out.
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