BIB_ID
301723
Accession number
MA 347.24
Creator
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1734?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.1 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 date is from Halsband and Grundy.
Possible date is from Halsband and Grundy.
Provenance
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
Summary
Includes the following items: autograph manuscript of a poem beginning "While fruitfull Nile ador'd his horned Queen" (p. 1-2); two lines in Latin in Lady Mary's hand (p. 2); autograph manuscript of a poem published as "Epigram" and beginning "born to be slaves our Fathers freedom sought" (p. 2); and a copy in Lady Mary's hand of a poem beginning "Venus to ye courts above" (p. 3-4). The author of the final poem ("Venus to ye courts above") has not been identified, but it was probably written as a verse compliment to Lady Mary.
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