BIB_ID
304049
Accession number
MA 351.17
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
1740 Sept. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.), bound ; 22.3 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.
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
Reminding him of the disagreeable circumstances of retrieving his correspondence with Swift thus far and describing the "astonishing Catastrophe of it at this present"; asking him for a favor regarding possibly disproving the authenticity of the edition of letters.
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