BIB_ID
116914
Accession number
MA 457.5
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1709 June 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Part of the Fountaine Papers.
With a note from Sir Andrew Fountaine above the address panel.
With postmark and seal.
Part of the Fountaine Papers.
With a note from Sir Andrew Fountaine above the address panel.
With postmark and seal.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Shield with cross inside.
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased at auction by Perry (Sotheby's, June 11-14, 1902, lot 824); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Noting that he has "an Ailment incommodius for Riding"; mentioning Sir Andrew Fountaine, "an old Roman Floor," and a dispute about "three Saxon Coins"; asking him to send him "a Commission to be Captn of a Man of War of fifty Guns for a Fortnight"; observing that he "allways thought Ships had Rats enough of their own without being troubled with Py-Rats"; wishing that "Your Excellency will order Your Fleets to beat the French this Summer, that we may have a Peace about Michaelmas, and see Your Lordship again in Ireland by Spring."
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