BIB_ID
118282
Accession number
MA 457.13
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
3 items (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
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.
These poems were formerly attributed to Jonathan Swift but are not in Swift's hand.
These poems were formerly attributed to Jonathan Swift but are not in Swift's hand.
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Includes three poems: "On Mistris Morice" (Sweet Blossom, of as sweet a Tree), "Lady Betty Herbert's recov'ry from the smallpox" (As Venus from her spheer surveyd), and "To Lady M. Herbert on some snow falling on her breast" (Those Envious flakes came down in haste).
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