BIB_ID
288295
Accession number
MA 1040.1-6
Creator
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
Display Date
1746-1767
Credit line
MA 1040: purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1926.
Description
1 v. (10 items), bound : ill. ; 33 cm
Notes
Some letters with address, seal, or postmark.
Provenance
MA 668: purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1910. MA 1040: purchased from Tregaskis by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1926.
Summary
A collection of nine autograph letters from Hume to various correspondents including Patrick Murray Elibank (MA 1040.1), Richard Penneck (MA 7641.2), John Clephane (MA 1040.2), William Strahan (MA 1040.3), Octavie Guichard Durey de Meinières (MA 668), Jean Charles Trudaine de Montigny (MA 1040.4), Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard (MA 1040.5), Alexander Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton (MA 7641.3), and Richard Davenport (MA 1040.6). The volume also includes a journal entry (MA 7641.1). Many of the letters concern Hume's quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 668, MA 1040.1-6, and MA 7641.1-3).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.7 cm)
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