BIB_ID
157390
Accession number
MA 130.10
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
[1699] Nov. 7.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.7 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).
With postmark and seal.
With postmark and seal.
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
Noting various business and personal affairs which have prevented him from writing; discussing his Catholicism; mentioning his poems to the Duchess of Ormond and his "worthy Cousin Driden"; reporting that [William] Congreve "is ill of the Gout."
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