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Autograph manuscript of two prose fragments filled with puns, undated.

BIB_ID
118108
Accession number
MA 457.25
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 12.9 cm
Notes
Fragments begin: "Do you know that Mr. Noble was but half hanged..." and "Is the story of the baker bran new?"
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.
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.