BIB_ID
317517
Accession number
MA 417.14
Display Date
[1765].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (1 p.) bound ; 19.6 cm
Notes
In his introduction to this letter, in the publication noted below, Wilbur L. Cross indicates that an "unknown reader at Bath saw a chance for a jest and sent it [this letter] in, some time in the spring or summer of 1765. Sterne thought it worth copying into his Letter Book."
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.
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
Suggesting a possible story line for a chapter in the next book and requesting that "this original Letter be preserved with the same care, & in the same Cabinet with the Bishop of Gloucester's Letter."
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