BIB_ID
193033
Accession number
MA 4141
Creator
Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794.
Display Date
1773 May 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1985.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
Camden gives the place of writing as "Lincoln's Inn Fields."
Address panel with part of a seal: "To / The Revd Dr. Percy."
Additional provenance information is available in the Collection File.
Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and editor of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, was involved in questioning the authenticity of poems that the teenage poet Thomas Chatterton had attributed to a 15th-century monk called Thomas Rowley, though they were actually his own creations. The identity of the curious "Gentleman" that Camden refers to in this letter is unknown.
Camden gives the place of writing as "Lincoln's Inn Fields."
Address panel with part of a seal: "To / The Revd Dr. Percy."
Additional provenance information is available in the Collection File.
Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and editor of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, was involved in questioning the authenticity of poems that the teenage poet Thomas Chatterton had attributed to a 15th-century monk called Thomas Rowley, though they were actually his own creations. The identity of the curious "Gentleman" that Camden refers to in this letter is unknown.
Provenance
Purchased from London dealer Pickering & Chatto on January 11, 1985 (catalog 655, lot 36).
Summary
Requesting "the sight of Chatterton's Papers for two or three days in order to shew them to a Gentleman who has a great curiosity to see those extraordinary compositions."
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