BIB_ID
304165
Accession number
MA 351.28
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1742] Aug. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Addressed panel reads: "To the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Orrery."
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from F. T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Regarding decorative urns [for his garden] and some [architectural?] drawings by Lord Burlington; commenting on the rumor that King George II would "go abroad, & reconcile when He Commands in chief, the Pretension of Two Generals [the Earl of Stair and the Duke of Aremberg]"; briefly mentioning the Duke of Argyle and Lords Chesterfield, Gower, and Privyseal.
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