BIB_ID
157393
Accession number
MA 130.6
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
1698 [i.e. 1699] Mar. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.6 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).
The second page is written upside down; Dryden notes this in a postscript: "You may see I was in hast, by writeing on the wrong side of the Paper."
The second page is written upside down; Dryden notes this in a postscript: "You may see I was in hast, by writeing on the wrong side of the Paper."
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
Thanking her for a gift; noting that "We poor Catholiques daily expect a most Severe Proclamation to come out against us"; mentioning [William] Congreve's Double-dealer; observing that Congreve's name appeared on the playbill and that "the printing of an Authours name, in a Play bill, is a new manner of proceeding.
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