BIB_ID
304432
Accession number
MA 561.20
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Display Date
[1739] Nov. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and evidence 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.
Year from docket and from Sherburn.
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.
Year from docket and from Sherburn.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Discussing the waters at Bristol, noting that they would be "serviceable" if he could stay for six to eight weeks; mentioning that he has been advised to go to Bath and discussing his health regimen; praising Fotescue's friendship; noting "I hate not man, as a man; but I hate Vice, in any man;" mentioning mutual acquaintances.
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