BIB_ID
301693
Accession number
MA 347.17
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1721?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Possible year is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters; place of writing is from the content of the letter.
The upper right corner is torn away with some loss of text.
With seal.
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; place of writing is from the content of the letter.
The upper right corner is torn away with some loss of text.
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
Telling her that "the two or three words" he wrote to her the other morning are causing him agitation; assuring her that he truly esteems and trusts her; reporting that he has been "kept in town by a violent Headache" and can see her at any time "except two, 3 or 4 aclock."
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