BIB_ID
157392
Accession number
MA 130.8
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
1699 Sept. 28.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.4 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
Describing his return journey from Cotterstock where he had visited her; discussing which of the two young ladies in his coach "was the handsomer"; complaining that his "Couple of Rabbetts" and "Mr. Cole's Ribadavia wine" were stolen during the journey.
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