BIB_ID
304454
Accession number
MA 561.28
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Display Date
[1714 July 19].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark.
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.
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
Complaining "I have the plague of the Headake upon me, and write to you in my Anguish," but praising Homer, the English climate, and French claret despite his ill health. Envying Ford's life in London and mentioning he and Parnell recently saw the Dean [Jonathan Swift] and hope to see Ford soon as well.
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