BIB_ID
157937
Accession number
MA 455.8
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1735 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Right Honorable / the Earl of Orrery, at / Egmonte near / Charleville."
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 8."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 8."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 721); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Discussing shared acquaintances including [Richard] Helsham, Dr. [Thomas] Sheridan, the Duke and Duchess of Dorset [Lionel Cranfield Sackville], and Lord [Allen] Bathurst; commenting on "English latinized, and Latin Englyfyed"; encouraging him to "make hast to be at the Play the 30th of next Month to shew [his] Loyalty"; noting that he thinks "the poetical fevor is over in both Kingdom[s] this Autumn, for, [he has] not been pestred for some Weeks either by Pacquets from England, or by Verses here from unknown hands."
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