BIB_ID
304419
Accession number
MA 561.14
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
1736 Aug. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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.
Written from "Twit'nam" [i.e., Twickenham].
Docketed.
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.
Written from "Twit'nam" [i.e., Twickenham].
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for an account of his reception on the Humber and at Lanesboro; discussing Martha Blount at length, asking "What a Prude is a Woman, that manages her reputation with a Judge, & an old Poet? (or rather Philosopher)?"
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