BIB_ID
301601
Accession number
MA 347.9
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1717].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 22.9 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. Sherburn believes this letter was written in the fall of 1717.
Year is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters. Sherburn believes this letter was written in the fall of 1717.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Praising her and imagining her return to England; noting that "the pleasure [of] thinking about [her] return transports [him] beyond the bounds of common Sence and decency"; mentioning his desire to meet her in Italy if she intends to return that way; discussing the "joy of following [her] Footsteps"; telling her a story about "Jeffrey Rudel the Provençall Poet"; asking her to bring him "the fair Cirassian [they] us'd to talk of," and to select her by consulting her own image in the mirror; inquiring whether she received the box of books he sent; sending greetings from various mutual acquaintances.
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