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Autograph letter signed Stoke Newington, England, to [Bishop Gibson], 1742 July 8.

BIB_ID
352393
Accession number
MA 158.3
Creator
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Display Date
1742 July 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a collection which includes an autograph draft of a memorial by Bishop Gibson (MA 158). Items in the collection have been described individually in five separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1900.
Summary
Saying that although he is "almost cut off from Study and Writing by Advancing Age, yet when what hath been wrote and Study'd some Years ago is published to the world without a name, your L'p. will permit me the Honor of putting it into your hands...."