BIB_ID
130592
Accession number
MA 4395
Creator
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Display Date
[1687].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.2 x 16.5 cm
Notes
This poem was previously accessioned as MS 3585 and the letter in which it was enclosed (MA 4394) was previously accessioned as MA 3584.
This poem was enclosed in a letter of condolence from Aphra Behn to Abigail Waller, daughter-in-law of the English poet Edmund Waller who died on October 21, 1867.
This poem was enclosed in a letter of condolence from Aphra Behn to Abigail Waller, daughter-in-law of the English poet Edmund Waller who died on October 21, 1867.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's London, July 20-21, 1981, lot 441 as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon in memory of John D. Barrett.
Summary
Being a elegy of sixty-three lines in memory of Edmund Waller.
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