BIB_ID
304030
Accession number
MA 351.12
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1738] Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 23.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to the Earl of Orrery at Duke Street, Westminster.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters to the Earl of Orrery. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters to the Earl of Orrery. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F. T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Summarizing what he can recall of Swift's last letter, which he has lost, namely: Swift had said he had twenty years' worth of letters from Pope, which he delivered to Mrs. Wh[iteway] and that she was to send them to him upon Swift's death, and that Mrs. Wh. indicated that she did not have them, and that they were in "some other safe hand, in Ireland"; explaining his suspicion of the situation.
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