BIB_ID
318611
Accession number
MA 849.6
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1760 Mar. 16-22].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.6 cm
Notes
Location and date 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.
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.
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
Sharing the good news that Lord Fauconberg has given him £160 per annum "so that all or the most part of my Sorrows and Tears are going to be wiped away." Noting that there is but one obstacle to his happiness and longing to see her. Remarking that his lodgings are "the genteelest in Town" and that he has been dining with the "greatest Company." Assuring her that "Tristram is the Fashion," and hoping to see her soon.
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