BIB_ID
301774
Accession number
MA 377.2
Creator
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.
Display Date
1754 Aug. 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.5 x 14.1 cm
Notes
In a collection with Richardson's autograph manuscript History of Mrs. Beaumont: Dr. Bartlett to Miss Byron (MA 377.1). Items in the collection are described in individual records.
The beginning of the letter is missing.
The beginning of the letter is missing.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1909.
Summary
Questioning him about the "men of Exeter" and wishing that the "Oxonians would be good" and "would get by heart some passages of Lord Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir W. Wyndham"; reporting that the "speaker ... has caused [him] to pay for [Kennicott's] books"; thanking him for the preface.
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