BIB_ID
366459
Accession number
MA 455.12
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1736 July 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 14.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Right Honorable the / Earl of Orrery."
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 12."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Signed as "The Dean."
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 12."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Signed as "The Dean."
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 725); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Inviting him to dine with a group of friends including [Richard] Helsham; asking him to give a guinea to his groom for "attending [him], and for the Charges of his Horse."
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