BIB_ID
118217
Accession number
MA 455.20
Display Date
1742 June 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.8 cm
Notes
Endorsed: "Copy of the affidavit of Ric[har]d Brenan: Servant to Dr. Swift in relation to Dr. Wilson's treatment of his master. June 16, 1742."
For Deane Swift's version of this incident, see his Nov. 19, 1742 letter to the Earl of Orrery in The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. David Woolley (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007), v. IV, letter 1500, p. 660-3.
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Richard Brennan was Jonathan Swift's servant; Francis Wilson was a prebendary in St. Patrick's.
Signed by Richard Brennan and John Rochfort, the Dean's friend and executor, as a magistrate of the county Dublin.
Watermark: rampant lion holding scepter and wheat in a double circle, surmounted by a crown.
For Deane Swift's version of this incident, see his Nov. 19, 1742 letter to the Earl of Orrery in The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. David Woolley (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007), v. IV, letter 1500, p. 660-3.
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Richard Brennan was Jonathan Swift's servant; Francis Wilson was a prebendary in St. Patrick's.
Signed by Richard Brennan and John Rochfort, the Dean's friend and executor, as a magistrate of the county Dublin.
Watermark: rampant lion holding scepter and wheat in a double circle, surmounted by a crown.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Concerning the mistreatment of Swift by Dr. Francis Wilson on June 14, 1742.
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