BIB_ID
118042
Accession number
MA 455.1-22
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1732 [i.e. 1733] Jan. 25-1742 July 13 and undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 box (22 items), unbound : ill. (ports.) ; size varies
Notes
Some letters with addresses, postmarks, and traces of seals.
The letter dated 1738 Feb. 2 includes a note from Mrs. [Martha] Whiteway, Swift's cousin.
The letter dated 1738 Feb. 2 includes a note from Mrs. [Martha] Whiteway, Swift's cousin.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lots 714-732); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
This collection consists of nineteen letters from Swift to the Earl of Orrery (MA 455.1-19) and three manuscript documents related to Swift: an examination of Richard Brenan [or Brennan], Swift's servant who witnessed an altercation between Swift and Francis Wilson on June 14, 1742 (MA 455.20), an examination of Francis Wilson in relation to his conduct on June 14, 1742 (MA 455.21), and a contemporary copy of Swift's notes on his family and on chapter 8 of Bruno Ryves's Mercurius Rusticus (MA 455.22). See individual records for more details.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (45.9 cm)
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