BIB_ID
303711
Accession number
MA 733.29
Creator
Newton, John, 1725-1807.
Display Date
1786 Jan. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and postmark and addressed to "Mrs. Gardiner / near Sleaford / Lincolnshire."
Docketed in pencil "Jan 86."
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 in pencil "Jan 86."
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
Mentioning his work to publish fifty sermons on the libretto of Handel's Messiah; alluding to the similarities in their religious conversion; encouraging her in her faith.
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