BIB_ID
157396
Accession number
MA 130.4
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
[1693] Aug. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.5 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
Mentioning his stay in Clapton and his translation of Ovid; noting that Queen [Mary II] has "commanded her Historiographer [Thomas] Rymer, to fall upon [Dryden's] Plays" because Dryden criticized her government; sending greetings to [William] Congreve.
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