BIB_ID
318525
Accession number
MA 849.2
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1760 Apr.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Laurence Sterne to his mistress Catherine Fourmantel, a professional singer whom he met in York in 1759. Letters in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible month and year of writing from Curtis.
Possible month and year of writing from Curtis.
Provenance
By descent to Mrs. Henry Weston, the daughter of a friend of Fourmantel's; John Murray (1778-1843), who allowed Isaac D'Israeli to publish five letters from this collection in his Miscellanies of Literature; by descent to his son John Murray (1808-1892); by descent to his grandson A.H. Hallam Murray; purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1912.
Summary
Saying that her letter gave him much pleasure, with some pain, about Ranleigh (concerning a failed engagement), but remarking with confidence that something else will "turn out in another Quarter." Reassuring her that she will want for nothing "that I can do with Discretion;" telling her that he loves her and that "You shall ever find me the same Man of Honor & Truth." Asking her to tell him what night she will be in town "that I may keep myself at Liberty to fly to thee." With a postscript remarking on his busy schedule, noting that he is to be presented to the Prince.
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