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From ye Runic of Elstobius : manuscript of a burlesque poem included among the Fountaine Papers, undated.

BIB_ID
118227
Accession number
MA 457.22
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.9 cm
Notes
Included among Swift materials, though the poem is not by Swift.
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.
Written in a "pretended archaic hand" (see Williams, p. 1142).
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
A skit on William Elstob, James Tyrrell, and an unidentified Killingworth (see Williams, p. 1143).