BIB_ID
128872
Accession number
MA 4394
Creator
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Display Date
[1687].
Credit line
Gift of Henry Sturgis Morgan, 1981.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.2 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Mrs. Waller was the daughter-in-law of the English poet, Edmund Waller, who died October 21, 1687.
This letter and the autograph poem which was enclosed were formerly cataloged as MA 3584 and MA 3585.
Aphra Behn enclosed an autograph poem signed written to the memory of Edmund Waller, titled "On the Death of Ed'nd Waller Esq." (MA 4395)
Address panel "To Mrs. Waller."
This letter and the autograph poem which was enclosed were formerly cataloged as MA 3584 and MA 3585.
Aphra Behn enclosed an autograph poem signed written to the memory of Edmund Waller, titled "On the Death of Ed'nd Waller Esq." (MA 4395)
Address panel "To Mrs. Waller."
Provenance
Purchased from Sotheby's, London, July 20-21, 1981, lot 440 as the gift of Henry S. Morgan.
Summary
Offering her deepest condolences on the death of her father-in-law; saying that she has not been well "...& have been dying this twelve month...;" adding, in a postscript, "I humbly beg pardon for my Ill writing madam for tis with a lame hand scarce able to hold a pen."
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