BIB_ID
304153
Accession number
MA 351.27
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1742] July 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 20.4 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 to date 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 to date by Orrery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F. T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Inquiring upon the arrival of his Great Dane, Bounce, whom he has given to Orrery; mentioning a request to "answer [his] Noble Neighbours Latin, or hear his English Oratory"; describing a recent visit in the park with the Duchess of Buckingham that left him concerned for her; indicating that he may stay at Orrery's [London?] home in his absence to call upon "Lord Boyle & his Brother"; indicating Cibber's intent to publish a letter to him in which he recalls an unsavory anecdote regarding Pope.
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