BIB_ID
303685
Accession number
MA 733.16
Creator
Newton, John, 1725-1807.
Display Date
1782 Aug. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Gardiner / Sleaford / Lincolnshire."
Docketed "82 August."
Part of a collection of letters from John Newton primarily to Mrs. Gardiner. Items in the collection have been described separately in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 733 for more information.
Docketed "82 August."
Part of a collection of letters from John Newton primarily to Mrs. Gardiner. Items in the collection have been described separately in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 733 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. probably before 1913.
Summary
Giving advice regarding the preacher at Sleaford; discussing their correspondence, noting "I am willing you should think as lowly of yourself as you please but wish you would not form so high an idea of my impertinence as to make any apology when you write. Let our correspondence be that of one poor sinner to another."
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