BIB_ID
291682
Accession number
MA 130.2
Creator
Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
Display Date
[ca. 1696 Nov.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan,, 1900 or 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 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
Discussing sending Tonson his "foul copy" of his Aeneid translation to have it "transcribed in a legible hand"; noting that "what [he] wrote yesterday was too sharp" and explaining, "Your Boys comeing upon so unseasonable a visit, as if you were frighted for your self, discomposd me"; telling him that part of his translation "of the first Eneid" is missing but he will "translate it over againe" if he cannot find it.
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