BIB_ID
301712
Accession number
MA 347.18
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
1721 Sept. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 19 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.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Writing "to confess [him]self ... a Beast ... for what [he] said & did about the Harpsichord"; offering to let her use the harpsichord and "the Gallery together" since he "could not obtain leave to lend" the harpsichord to her; expressing his delight that she mentioned his "Trees & Garden"; extending an invitation from Lord Bathurst to visit Cirencester.
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