BIB_ID
318617
Accession number
MA 849.7
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1760 May].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 19.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed "To / Miss Formantelle. / in Merds (?) Court / St. Anne. Soho."
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.
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.
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
Regretting that his schedule has prevented their seeing each other, noting "I have not had one hour or half hour in my power since I saw You on Sunday." Remarking that "I am as much a Prisoner as if I was in Jayl" and asking her to believe that "I d[o] not spend an hour where I wish -- for I wish to be with You always." Looking forward to seeing her on Friday.
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