BIB_ID
317297
Accession number
MA 417.4
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1764 June].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (4 p.) bound ; 19.4 cm
Notes
A penciled notation by Belle daCosta Greene, beneath p. 1, suggests this letter may have been written to the Countess of Edgecombe [sic]; Wilbur L. Cross refers to her as Emma Gilbert, Countess of Edgcumbe.
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.
The month and year of writing is from an introduction to this letter by Wilbur L. Cross in the publication noted below.
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.
The month and year of writing is from an introduction to this letter by Wilbur L. Cross in the publication noted below.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Apologizing for his hasty departure from a recent visit.
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