BIB_ID
318641
Accession number
MA 849.15
Creator
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Display Date
[1767 Mar.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23 cm
Notes
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.
This is a manuscript copy of the first paragraph of a letter written by Sterne to Eliza (Mrs. Daniel Draper), ca. March 1767 (which is printed in Curtis, no. 185, p. 304-305).
This is a manuscript copy of the first paragraph of a letter written by Sterne to Eliza (Mrs. Daniel Draper), ca. March 1767 (which is printed in Curtis, no. 185, p. 304-305).
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
Remarking that Lord Bathurst thrice toasted her the previous evening; noting that although Bathurst is eighty five years old, he hopes one day to meet Eliza; remarking that Bathurst is his old friend and has long been "the protector of men of wit and genius," including Addison, Steele, Pope Swift and Prior.
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