BIB_ID
301592
Accession number
MA 347.8
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1717 June].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Date is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters.
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.
Signed "I am always yours."
The upper right corner is torn off.
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.
Signed "I am always yours."
The upper right corner is torn off.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Telling her he thinks of her every day; worrying that he has not been able to tell her the full extent of what he feels; informing her that his eyesight has "grown so bad" that he has "left off all correspondence" except his letters to her; mentioning [William] Congreve; speculating on whether her time in the East has made her better able to understand Homer; sending her a box of his works; giving her the London news; asking her to write as often as possible.
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