BIB_ID
107572
Accession number
MA 788
Creator
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Display Date
1704 Oct. 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 27 cm
Notes
Concerning Defoe's "vindication," see 7 and 10 October 1704 of the Review.
MA 788 represents the only known extant letter from Defoe to Elisha. A second, now untraced, letter of 31 August 1704 was printed in John Forster's "Oliver Cromwell, Daniel De Foe, Sir Richard Steele, charles Churchillo, Samuel Foote: Biographical Essays," 3rd edition, 1860, p. iv-v.
Mr. Rogers is perhaps Gabriel Rogers, a bookseller active in Shrewsbury ca. 1695-1708.
Signed "I am, Sir, Your Oblig'd Humble Servt / D F."
The Review of 26 September 1704 announced that subscriptions for Jure Divino, "By the Author of The True born Englishman" would be accepted not only at various places in London, but also "at most of the Principal Towns in England." Jure Divino was again advertised in the Review of 18 November 1704. (N.B. Jure Divino was not published until 1706.)
MA 788 represents the only known extant letter from Defoe to Elisha. A second, now untraced, letter of 31 August 1704 was printed in John Forster's "Oliver Cromwell, Daniel De Foe, Sir Richard Steele, charles Churchillo, Samuel Foote: Biographical Essays," 3rd edition, 1860, p. iv-v.
Mr. Rogers is perhaps Gabriel Rogers, a bookseller active in Shrewsbury ca. 1695-1708.
Signed "I am, Sir, Your Oblig'd Humble Servt / D F."
The Review of 26 September 1704 announced that subscriptions for Jure Divino, "By the Author of The True born Englishman" would be accepted not only at various places in London, but also "at most of the Principal Towns in England." Jure Divino was again advertised in the Review of 18 November 1704. (N.B. Jure Divino was not published until 1706.)
Provenance
Huth Sale, London, 12 June 1911, no. 57.
Summary
Apologizing for not responding to his letter sooner, noting that he has "been Out of Town for above 3 weeks." Mentioning his Review, in which he has "been Oblig'd to Vindicate [him] Self by an Advertisement," noting that had he not thought it "Necessary to Come up and sho' [him]self," he should have liked to visit Elisha. Thanking Elisha for accepting a copy of Defoe's "Hymn to Victory," and asking Elisha to remind Mr. Rogers of Defoe's Jure Divino "which Now Draws near putting forward."
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