BIB_ID
317481
Accession number
MA 417.13
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
1760 Sept. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (3 p.) bound ; 19.4 cm
Notes
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.
Rev. Brown was an English clergyman living in Geneva; Sterne's friend John Hall-Stevenson met Brown in Geneva and forwarded a letter to Sterne (MA 417.12) from Brown regarding "Tristram Shandy" and Sterne.
Rev. Brown was an English clergyman living in Geneva; Sterne's friend John Hall-Stevenson met Brown in Geneva and forwarded a letter to Sterne (MA 417.12) from Brown regarding "Tristram Shandy" and Sterne.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1897.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and the kind words about "Tristram Shandy" and responding to his questions.
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