BIB_ID
290929
Accession number
MA 457.1
Display Date
[between 1745 and 1753].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 4.5 x 13.1 cm
Notes
Accompanying documentation with the Fountaine Papers.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Probably sent after Swift's death in 1745 but before Fountaine's death in 1753.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Probably sent after Swift's death in 1745 but before Fountaine's death in 1753.
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
An unsigned note (4 lines) reading: "These Letters and [these?] scraps in the handwriting of Dear Swift I mean to give to Andrew Fountaine Esqr. as trifling curiosities perhaps, in themselves, but curious so far as they are autographs of the celebrated wit and extraordinary man."
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