BIB_ID
365516
Accession number
MA 455.4
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1733 Apr. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 4." and "Complaint of a swimming in his head."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 4." and "Complaint of a swimming in his head."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 717); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Writing to him even though he has "a swimming in [his] head which hinders [him] from going abroad as [he] intended on Horseback"; renouncing Lord Orrery's offer of a coach; promising to wait on him when he is better.
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