BIB_ID
301589
Accession number
MA 347.7
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1717] Feb. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters, primarily from Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and manuscript poems. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 347 for details.
Year is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters.
Year is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Commenting on the "unquiet state" he is in following the news of her departure from Vienna; saying that his "letter is a piece of madness" because he doesn't know where to send it "or if it will ever reach [her] hands"; telling her he is "half afraid, & half willing" that she should know "how very much I was yours, how unfortunately well I knew you, and with what a miserable constancy I shall ever remember you"; reporting that her illness "frightens" him; commenting on her allusion to his "friendship" for her; hoping they will meet hereafter; asking her to give him the first possible news of her health and progress.
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