BIB_ID
117088
Accession number
MA 417.24
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1760 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (3 p. with address) bound ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "Mr. Berenger / Suffolk Street."
In a penciled notation, by Belle da Costa Greene beneath p. 1, she indicates that "Richard Berenger was for many years "gentleman of the horse" to George III. He published some works on horsemanship as well as poems and essays. He was a social favourite, famous for his wit and charm. Sterne met him at Garrick's table. Dr. Johnson called him "the standard of ideal elegance" and Hannah More thought him "all chivalry, blank verse and anecdote."
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.
Wilbur L. Cross, in the publication noted below, says that this letter is "as it was sent" by Sterne. The autograph draft copy of this letter is MA 417.3.
In a penciled notation, by Belle da Costa Greene beneath p. 1, she indicates that "Richard Berenger was for many years "gentleman of the horse" to George III. He published some works on horsemanship as well as poems and essays. He was a social favourite, famous for his wit and charm. Sterne met him at Garrick's table. Dr. Johnson called him "the standard of ideal elegance" and Hannah More thought him "all chivalry, blank verse and anecdote."
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.
Wilbur L. Cross, in the publication noted below, says that this letter is "as it was sent" by Sterne. The autograph draft copy of this letter is MA 417.3.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Asking him for his assistance in securing Hogarth to do a frontispiece for Tristam Shandy.
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