BIB_ID
318609
Accession number
MA 849.5
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
Thursday [1759].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed simply to "Miss Fourmantel."
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.
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.
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
Sending her a "Pot of Sweetmeats and a Pot of Honey, neither of them, half so sweet as yourself." Instructing her not to grow vain or sour or he will "send You a pot of Pickles, (by way of contrarys) to sweeten you up [again]." Pledging that he is unalterably hers.
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