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 copy of his letter signed : York, to an unknown recipient, 1760 Jan. 1.

BIB_ID
317290
Accession number
MA 417.2
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
1760 Jan. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (5 p.) bound ; 20.7 cm
Notes
A penciled notation by Belle Greene, under page 1of the letter, suggests the letter might have been written to Dr. Warburton; Wilbur Cross suggests, in his comments on this letter (see publication note below) that this letter was "apparently written to a York friend."
Part of a collection of letters from Laurence Sterne. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Responding to criticism surrounding the publication of Tristram Shandy.