BIB_ID
317294
Accession number
MA 417.3
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1760].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (2 p.) bound ; 19.5 cm
Notes
According to Wilbur L. Cross, this is a draft of a letter Sterne sent to Richard Berenger in March 1760; Berenger was Gentleman of the Horse to George the Third; the record for the original of this letter is found later in the collection.
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.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Belle Greene above p. 1.
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.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Belle Greene above p. 1.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Asking for a frontispiece by Hogarth to Tristram Shandy.
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