BIB_ID
301611
Accession number
MA 347.10
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1718].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 22.7 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
Informing her that he is recovering from a "very severe Illness"; paying her compliments; telling her that his father died and his mother is in her "precarious last days of life"; asking her to hurry back to England; discussing letters between them that went missing; mentioning shared acquaintances; commenging on the "rupture of the two Courts" and the subsequent decline in "Gallantry and Gayety"; begging her to write to him more frequently now that she is "come into the region of posts."
Catalog link
Department