BIB_ID
304199
Accession number
MA 351.36
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1744] Apr. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address), bound ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Earl of Orrery, at Marston near Froom, Somersetshire"; with postmark.
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
Thanking him for his letter, delivered by his son, Lord [Charles] Boyle; inquiring as to the fate of Bounce [his Great Dane, in Orrery's custody] and loosely quoting Chaucer, with his own additional verse; describing his own health.
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