BIB_ID
157394
Accession number
MA 130.5
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
1698 [i.e. 1699] Feb. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.5 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).
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
Assuring her of the health of her relatives; describing a violent wind and the damage it caused; mentioning his fruitless errand to retrieve her gift; suggesting that someone deceived her "with a Counterfeited Name."
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