BIB_ID
108088
Accession number
MA 455.3
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1733 Apr. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 3. Thanks for the Print I sent him of my Wife. Henrietta."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 3. Thanks for the Print I sent him of my Wife. Henrietta."
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 716); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Thanking the Earl of Orrery for sending an engraving of his wife [Lady Henrietta Hamilton]; opining that Orrery "will not stay long enough among us to spread [his] example."
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