BIB_ID
366451
Accession number
MA 455.10
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1735 [i.e. 1736] Jan. 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 14.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Right Honorable / the Earl of Orrery."
Dated 1735, but Swift is using an Old Style date; the year is 1736.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 10."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Dated 1735, but Swift is using an Old Style date; the year is 1736.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 10."
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 723); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Remarking that he is "always unhappy, being plagued by those whose sight [he] hate[s], and never seeing those whose sight [he] long[s] for"; telling him that he hopes he recovers from his cold soon.
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