BIB_ID
303703
Accession number
MA 733.23
Creator
Newton, John, 1725-1807.
Display Date
1784 May 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and trace of a seal and addressed to "Mrs. Gardiner / near Sleaford / Lincolnshire."
Docketed "84 May."
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.
Written from his lodgings in Hoxton Square.
Docketed "84 May."
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.
Written from his lodgings in Hoxton Square.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. probably before 1913.
Summary
Sending a copy of his Apologia; concerning faith and religious topics and discussing her attempt to "win [a mutual acquaintance] to serious thoughts of his state of religion."
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