BIB_ID
127673
Accession number
MA 561.33
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1737] June 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel postmark and evidence of a seal.
Dating from Sherburn, who notes "the year is highly uncertain."
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.
Dating from Sherburn, who notes "the year is highly uncertain."
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for a letter; regretting that "Law, & Sickness, & Company, have conspired to Alienate me from my Friends, my Pleasures, from my Studies, from my Self," and hoping that Richardson will visit the following week with his son and companion. Sending him a Royal Paper edition of his Letters and his son a complete edition of his works "with Large Margins".
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