BIB_ID
120337
Accession number
MA 742
Creator
Whitefield, George, 1714-1770.
Display Date
1739.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (129 p.), bound ; 19.7 cm
Notes
Paginated erratically: pp. 1-75; [no pages 76-77]; 78-104; 105r and 105v; 106-127; 126 [a second page with number 126]; 127 [a second page with number 127]; 128-129.
Begun while on board the Elizabeth, which was bound from England to Philadelphia, "after having prayed for freedom of spirit to write it for above three years successively."
Provenance information from two notes penned on the front fly-leaf of the manuscript.
Whitefield studied at Pembroke College, Oxford from 1732-1735.
Begun while on board the Elizabeth, which was bound from England to Philadelphia, "after having prayed for freedom of spirit to write it for above three years successively."
Provenance information from two notes penned on the front fly-leaf of the manuscript.
Whitefield studied at Pembroke College, Oxford from 1732-1735.
Provenance
Given to an unidentified owner by Mr. Dixon, the schoolmaster at the Orphan House in Georgia (Bethesda, south of Savannah) in June, 1769; given by Cornelius Winter to Nathaniel Elgar Slopes and his sister Mrs. Watts; bequeathed by Mrs. Watts to her nephew George Elgar Slopes of Grosvenor Square; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1911.
Summary
An autobiographical account of his life "from my Infancy till my being for some time at the University." Signed "G.W." on p. 129 and followed by ca. 110 blank leaves.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (21.5 cm)
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