BIB_ID
318537
Accession number
MA 849.4
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1759].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20 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.
Referring to his first printed sermon, "The case of Clijah and the widow of Zarephath considered," preached on Good Friday, April 17, 1474 at the parish of St. Michael-le-Belfry of York,and printed in early May of that year.
With evidence of a seal.
Year of writing from Curtis.
Referring to his first printed sermon, "The case of Clijah and the widow of Zarephath considered," preached on Good Friday, April 17, 1474 at the parish of St. Michael-le-Belfry of York,and printed in early May of that year.
With evidence of a seal.
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
Enclosing a copy of his sermon on Elijah, remarking that he sees "something of the same kind & gentle disposition" in her own heart. With a postscript hoping to see her that afternoon before he goes to Mr. Fothergill's and reporting that he had the pleasure of drinking to her health the previous evening.
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