BIB_ID
157383
Accession number
MA 130.15
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
[1693] Dec. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 17 autograph letters from John Dryden, a letter from Sir Henry Turner Dryden, and four prints. Items are described in separate records (MA 130.1-22).
Provenance
Purchased by Sabin from the [Sir Thomas] Phillipps sale, June 7, 1898, lot 313; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Sabin, 1900 or 1901.
Summary
Discussing Walsh's poetry and his own; mentioning [William] Congreve; commenting on military and political affairs; noting that he has "undertaken to translate all Virgil."
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