BIB_ID
303742
Accession number
MA 733.40
Creator
Newton, John, 1725-1807.
Display Date
1791 Nov. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks.
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.
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
Mentioning Cowper and "the pompous edition of Milton that is to come abroad," saying "I certainly prefer [Milton] to a hundred Homers;" discussing Henry Thornton and the Sierra Leone colony.
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