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Family of Swift and Mercurius rusticus : contemporary copy of Swift's notes, undated [17--?]..

BIB_ID
118179
Accession number
MA 455.22
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
undated [17--?]..
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (36 p.) ; 23.7 cm
Notes
In an unidentified contemporary hand.
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
The first 15 pages have the running title "Family of Swift," with the following notes at the top of p. 1: "A copy of those memoirs which were written by the Dean of St. Patricks as notes for his own life," "N.B. The Manuscript in Mrs. W[hiteway's] possession is under the Dean's hand," and "The marginal observations are not the Dean's."
The last section of 11 pages has the title "Mercurius Rusticus: Or, The County's Complaint: Recounting the Sad Events of the late unparalleld Rebellion. London: Printed for Richard Green Book-seller in Cambridge. 1685." and consists of Swift's notes on chapter 8 of Bruno Ryves's Mercurius Rusticus.
The original manuscript of Swift's notes on his family is in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.