BIB_ID
304202
Accession number
MA 351.37
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1744 May 5?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address), bound ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to the Earl of Orrery "at Marston, near Froome; in Somersetshire"; with postmark.
Approximate date based on note in docket indicating May 5 as date of receipt by Orrery.
Docketed.
In an unknown hand, signed by Pope.
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.
Approximate date based on note in docket indicating May 5 as date of receipt by Orrery.
Docketed.
In an unknown hand, signed by Pope.
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
Briefly describing, in a vaguely optimistic tone, his ailing health and new diagnosis "from an Asthma into a Dropsy."
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