BIB_ID
304044
Accession number
MA 351.16
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1740] Oct. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 18.5 cm
Notes
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.
Year added by Orrery.
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.
Year added by Orrery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F. T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Expressing and explaining his doubts as to the "whole transaction" [the clandestine publication of his letters]; describing the dishonest practices regarding publication of manuscripts that seem to go on on Orrery's "side of the water"; asking him to please revise any improper passages he notes in his or Swift's letters for the forthcoming edition.
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