BIB_ID
132584
Accession number
MA 946
Creator
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (104 p.), bound ; 23.8 cm
Provenance
Purchased by John Camden Hotten from Mrs. Moore or her executors; purchased by Henry Sotheran from Chatto & Windus; purchased by Julius L. Brown from the New York Bookseller J. W. Bouton before 1887; by descent to his brother Joseph M. Brown; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Joseph M. Brown in 1918.
Summary
A commonplace book, consisting primarily of miscellaneous readings, mainly in philosophy, theology and the classics. Some of this material went into an article Moore wrote for The Edinburgh Review, and some of it (apparently) into Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion. Containing some draft material for Alciphron, the original poetic form of The Epicurean; and also drafts of the preface to Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems; and parts of The Fudge Family in Paris.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (26 cm)
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