Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter : place not specified, to William Fortescue, [1735 July 13].

BIB_ID
304414
Accession number
MA 561.12
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1735 July 13].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal.
Dating from Sherburn.
Part of a large collection of letters and documents of Alexander Pope. Items within the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Regretting that Fortescue was out when Pope called on him. Mentioning that [Edmund] Curll "has reprinted my Letters with the addiont of a great deal of Scandal of his own putting upon me;" discussing this "pyrated book" and how best to have the copies destroyed; asking whether an injunction may be had.