BIB_ID
318630
Accession number
MA 849.10
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1760 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
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 her a quick line and asking for news, instructing her to "be very particular in every thing." Remarking that his lodgings are full "every hour" with great people and mentioning that he is engaged to dine with Lord Chesterfield and to accompany Lord Rockingham to court the following week.
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