Record ID:
304452
Accession number:
MA 561.27
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 18 cm
Notes:
The first part of the letter was written on "May 19. By Sunshine" in the autograph of Pope; the second part of the letter is in the autograph of Thomas Parnell and dated "By Moonshine. May 19." Signed with a composite signature "epoPParnell" (with Pope's half of the composite signature in mirror-writing).
Address panel with seal and postmark.
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.
Summary:
Playfully describing at length a sunset (Pope) and the rising of the moon (Parnell).
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
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