Record ID:
127688
Accession number:
MA 347.27
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 x 17.7 cm
Notes:
The beginning and end of the poem are missing. Sections of this poem were later incorporated in "Sylvia, a Fragment" and his Epistle to a Lady.
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.
Provenance:
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
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