BIB_ID
366455
Accession number
MA 455.11
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1735 [i.e. 1736] Mar. 9.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 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. 11."
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. 11."
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 724); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Telling him that he has not waited on him because he is "hindred by a certain return of deafness whenever [he] venture[s] into the cold Air"; mentioning that he heard the Earl of Orrery's story when he was with the Duke of Dorset [Lionel Cranfield Sackville]; criticizing the Earl's recent behavior: "You danced till your body was all in a sweat. At half an hour after two, the Duke thought you were gone home; but you stayd till five in an outer Room with a dozen of fellows, enough to kill any body of a much stronger constitution, you are neither fitted in body or Mind, or principles for such a way of living. Regularity of Life is what you were destined for by God and Nature, in spight of your being a Lord; and if you throw it off, throw off every good quality besides, that you may better resemble your Brethren."
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