BIB_ID
318619
Accession number
MA 849.8
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1760 April].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.8 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
Sending a ticket for a play that evening since he must leave her at four o'clock, so that at least she is entertained that evening "when I am not." Remarking that she is the most "engaging Creature; and I never spend an Evening with you, but I leave a fresh part of my heart behind me-- You will get me all, piece by piece, I find, before all is over." With a postscript noting that he will arrive at two o'clock.
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