BIB_ID
126479
Accession number
MA 455.5
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1733 Apr. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 14.4 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 5." and "Returned a snuff box belonging to my wife wch I had offered to him."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 5." and "Returned a snuff box belonging to my wife wch I had offered to him."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 718); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Returning a snuff box that the Earl of Orrery sent to him; joking that he is "employing every proper emissary [he] can find, to discover one fault in your Lordship, and shall be uneasy till it is brought to Light."
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