BIB_ID
117091
Accession number
MA 417.20
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
1758.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1924.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
A penciled notation beneath p. 1, by Belle daCosta Greene, indicates that Rev. Blake was a York clergyman and a friend and neighbor of Sterne.
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "The Rev'd / Mr. Blake" and "1756 / Original letters from / the Rev'd L. Sterne / to the / Rev'd J. Blake / 16 in number."
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, suggests that the year of writing was 1758; Cross says that "through the summer and autumn of 1758, Sterne and Blake were engaged in a brisk correspondence which was carried on by special messengers between York and Sutton."
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "The Rev'd / Mr. Blake" and "1756 / Original letters from / the Rev'd L. Sterne / to the / Rev'd J. Blake / 16 in number."
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, suggests that the year of writing was 1758; Cross says that "through the summer and autumn of 1758, Sterne and Blake were engaged in a brisk correspondence which was carried on by special messengers between York and Sutton."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from E.H. Wells, 1924.
Summary
Offering advice on a controversy that surrounded a marriage proposal by the Rev. Blake to a Miss Ash.
Catalog link
Department