BIB_ID
127671
Accession number
MA 561.26
Creator
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718.
Display Date
1714 Sept. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents of Alexander Pope. Items within the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Alexander Pope's residence Binfield in the autograph of Thomas Parnell as from Parnell and Pope, and signed by both.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents of Alexander Pope. Items within the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Alexander Pope's residence Binfield in the autograph of Thomas Parnell as from Parnell and Pope, and signed by both.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for a letter and regretting that they did not meet the Dean [Jonathan Swift] before he left. Alluding to Parnell's taking an oath and their impending visit, with John Gay, to Ford.
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