BIB_ID
366450
Accession number
MA 455.9
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
[1735] Oct. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Docketed; year is from docket.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 9."
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. 9."
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 722); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Complaining about his health; telling him that he would be interested in purchasing "any midling bit of Land worth about 200 year"; mentioning that he plans to "leave [his] whole Fortune to a publick use, for endowing an Hospital for Lunaticks and Ideots"; commenting on the Earl of Orrery's translation of "the Ode of Pyrrha"; wondering when he is going to return to Dublin.
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