BIB_ID
301686
Accession number
MA 347.16
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1720] Aug. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Endorsed.
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.
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.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Advising her to buy stock in the South Sea Company: "I was made acquainted late last night, that I might depend upon it as a certain gain, to Buy the South Sea-Stock at the present price, which will certainly rise in some weeks, or less. I can be as sure of this, as the nature of any such thing will allow, from the first & best hands."
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