Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Edward Wortley Montagu, [1719?].

BIB_ID
301643
Accession number
MA 347.13
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1719?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 14.5 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.
Possible year is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters.
With seal.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Reporting that Sir Godfrey's surveyor thinks that "all that is wanting to the house may be done in 2 days"; telling him that Sir Godfrey "absolutely refuses to let [the house] till Christmass" [sic].