BIB_ID
127680
Accession number
MA 347.19
Display Date
undated.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 17.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to Lady Mary Wortley in Charles Street, Westminster.
Part of a collection of autograph letters, primarily from Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and manuscript poems. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 347 for details.
This note was formerly attributed to Pope, but Sherburn does not accept it.
With seal.
Part of a collection of autograph letters, primarily from Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and manuscript poems. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 347 for details.
This note was formerly attributed to Pope, but Sherburn does not accept it.
With seal.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Complaining, "I might be dead or you in Yorkshire for any thing that I am the better for your being in town"; reporting that he has been sick and has a "sweld face"; saying that nothing will do him so much good as the sight of her; telling her he loves her.
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