BIB_ID
303713
Accession number
MA 733.30
Creator
Newton, John, 1725-1807.
Display Date
1786 Apr. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "Mrs. Gardiner / Sleaford / Lincoln-shire."
Docketed in pencil "April 5 -- 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.
Docketed in pencil "April 5 -- 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.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. probably before 1913.
Summary
Thanking her for a gift; mentioning the upcoming publication of his fifty sermons on Handel's Messiah; discussing her religious life.
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