BIB_ID
318527
Accession number
MA 849.3
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1759].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.9 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.
Year of writing from Curtis.
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
Remarking that he will be "out of humour" with her and will refuse to paint her picture unless she accepts a few bottles of Calcavillo, which he is having sent to her; noting that she will learn the reason behind this "trifling Present" if she invents "some plausible excuse" to be home at seven on Tuesday night.
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